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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
taleb will miss out on the only thing he didn'twant to miss out on this life.
pete_dushenski: 'if you see a fraud and don't call him a fraud, you're a fraud' (tm) (herr
taleb)
pete_dushenski: "An Uberized education is when --as in antiquity -- one goes to a specific teacher to get lectures, bypassing the university. The students and the teachers are thus matched. If a piece of paper is necessary, it would be given by *that* teacher, or a group of teachers. It is not too different from the decentralized apprentice model." -herr
taleb mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can not answer for
taleb. i can tell you that as far as i'm concerned, a) my ass actually enjoys the company and b) my head actually doesn't much care about the industry.
assbot: Logged on 31-08-2015 12:54:31; pete_dushenski: tlp video removed by yt,
taleb one still up
shinohai:
Taleb rejected your offer of a BTC just to show up?
pete_dushenski wonders if there'd be any action on a bitbet as to whether
taleb shows up here in the next year
pete_dushenski: " Note that it costs only a few dollars a day for someone to zap systematically suspicious posters who have not participated on this page before." -herr
taleb, apparently learning to deal better with trolls and other internet phenomena
pete_dushenski: "The free-market system has salient flaws and hidden benefits. All other systems have hidden flaws and salient benefits." -herr
taleb pete_dushenski: 'specially if you're on the wrong side of 50 a la
taleb gernika: Some
taleb talk posted here applies to this fellow - the applicable bit being that his main mistake was holding the same job for years - fragile strategy.
phf: but i've personally not seen a single instance of "
taleb's library" in anywhere around capitol hill
mircea_popescu: but go explain to
taleb why he should stop wearing the facial hair style he does. because why ? reasons ? he got reasons too.
ascii_field: i suspect that '20-y.o.
taleb' may be a contradiction in terms
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares. i want the
taleb in his 20s not the
taleb in his 70s.
assbot: Logged on 10-07-2015 14:47:44; asciilifeform: what openness, when tomorrow, e.g.,
taleb, logs in, and gets ddosed off by a tard
ascii_field: meanwhile
taleb and uncleal will log in, witness a thread about dogecoin, then get a flood of ddos, vomit, and never return
decimation: mircea_popescu: that was
Taleb's point too
decimation: From
Taleb: "In one of the rare noncharlatanic books in finance, descriptively called What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars, the protagonist makes a big discovery. He remarks that a fellow named Joe Siegel, one of the most successful traders in a commodity called ?green lumber,? actually thought that it was lumber painted green (rather than freshly cut lumber, called green because it had not been dried). And he made it his professio
decimation: these skills are not the same 'ting' as
taleb wrote
assbot: Logged on 23-06-2015 03:22:02; mircea_popescu: and THAT is where
taleb engages traditionalism - where it matters. nobody is still left at the wheel who can talk back, so nobody does, all that's left is a cargo cult of the dead st. thomas, trudging along.
pete_dushenski:
taleb's too much a protector of the people to see them as the source of all evil.
mircea_popescu: and THAT is where
taleb engages traditionalism - where it matters. nobody is still left at the wheel who can talk back, so nobody does, all that's left is a cargo cult of the dead st. thomas, trudging along.
☟︎ ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: thanks for the response... I am confused about this: "and the fundamentally flawed proposition that for this reason, it is more important to interpret phenomena through history than through any other lens." -is this how traditionalist discourse treat phenomena? exclusively historically? and also: you say
taleb can provide a damaging critique of traditionalism? May I kindly ask, whose? What authors/thinkers
mircea_popescu: stuff like
taleb is a much more damaging criticism of traditionalism than structuralism ever was or could aspire to be.
pete_dushenski: in
taleb's books, he often refers to his long, slow walks with mandelbrot, and how the old man is the only one who will walk slowly enough to properly meditate with
pete_dushenski: benoit's definitely in the
taleb vein, or perhaps vice versa
decimation: yeah, the next episode he interviews
taleb on gmos
mircea_popescu: so is
taleb. so is everyone that DIDN'T join the system.
mircea_popescu: davout: if it keeps
taleb out and lets taaki << doesn't seem to be doing that tho.
pete_dushenski: Nassim Nicholas
Taleb: December 29, 2014 at 7:45pm: "With the information age the world looks uglier, dirtier, more corrupt, scheming, mostly because the malicious was hidden from us before."
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform
taleb also seems to genuinely enjoy facebook and twitter
davout: if it keeps
taleb out and lets taaki in it's probably the wrong kind of barrier to entry :D
mircea_popescu: whenever people like
taleb think of peace in their homeland,
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2014 20:25:59; asciilifeform: mats_cd03: depends on hypothetical destination. but, overall, just picture a figure large enough to 'become
taleb' and live as 'gentleman scholar' in total disconnect from economic reality around you.
nubbins`: and i guess
taleb's mailing address is hard to find.
saifedean: hmmm.. de vany is a friend of
taleb, we should invite the two of them here and have them chill with your assassin cult
saifedean: compelling, i must say, but last time i spoke to
taleb he wasn't all that interested in bitcoin. i mean, he finds it interesting to a point, but not to the point of healthy obsession and complete disregard of everything else that we share
assbot: Logged on 06-07-2014 23:40:36; mircea_popescu: "Here's me begging you Mr
Taleb!" or something
saifedean: well
taleb was the reason i went heretical, or the gateway drug at least, i met him and became friend and then went heretic... he liked the heretic version and was happy to be on my committee as the external examiner... but the columbia folks didn't like it so i had to rewrite it and do my Hail USG's, and he still sat onmy committee for that one and helped me defend it from their fangs
saifedean: there's a long ass story about how this came about which i may tell to you some day near a fire... i basically started reading
taleb in my third year and went off the good Ivy rails... by the end of my fifth i had written an absolutely heretic phd and submit it, and when my adviser finally got round to reading it, the day before the defense, she decided it wasn't acceptable and wasn't going to let me defend it
johntraveller: asciilifeform: oh yeah, you’re right. my theory was that people like MP or
taleb, who grew up in somewhat sane cultures, instinctively see the craziness of anglo-american ideas. if you grew up in the english speaking world it’s harder to see that
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 as in, didn't understand
taleb's point ? or as in what ?
ben_vulpes:
taleb's really on to something with his noise suppression routine.
BingoBoingo:
Taleb could probably get an article in without 6 months reading.
ben_vulpes: i'm trying the
taleb approach to noise reduction
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: The list of targets, irc is Nick Szabo, Nicholas
Taleb.