Continental Philosopher. He doesn’t fit that role well :-/
:-DD The good schools in Lebanon teach in French and have a chance of turning out typical Francophone intellectuals. Brilliant, awesome, bombastic, impressive, trying really hard to impress, but more meandering around showing off the sparkling wit rather than digging deep at one spot. Taleb has this typical French-like style in his bones and education, and the financial analyst stuff came later in his life. It is possible to glean good ideas from that book, but there are a lot of superficial wit-sparkles to ignore, to be sure.
Kluppelberg talks about his work in her recent book who is also a coauthor of “Modeling Extremal Events”, I have seen Thorpe in a interview say that he was interested in betting on rare events since Taleb talked about it, co-editor of this journal http://www.iospress.nl/journal/risk-and-decision-analysis/
and the “Extreme Risk Initiative” with him & Tapiero is well… his.
He seems to have successfully completed the job and the people who call it annoying are a minority, it’s always some inflammatory side-attack and it gets old. Correctly predicted the crisis and calls out people who are harmful, seems like a great guy to me.
It would be useful to not evaluate a person as one whole person, or not as one whole set of works. Otherwise you are susceptible to halo or horn effects. It is more useful to see multiple different aspects. I can hate Ayn Rand and yet find her solution for the problem of the universals quite respectable. I can say Taleb’s math is excellent, was very predictive and just what the world needs while his way of writing books that attempt to talk about everything superficially not so good and wish he would focus more narrowly on his expertise instead of talking about everything.
Some times I get together with a few buddies from Less Wrong and laugh at all the contrarian-hipsters(you) who instead of posting so much should just study. It’s important for people to be perceived accurately. Eliezer is misunderstood as is Taleb.
Minds are like parachutes… :-)
I’ve read Taleb. As I’ve said he had one insight and then decided to become a Continental Philosopher. He doesn’t fit that role well :-/
:-DD The good schools in Lebanon teach in French and have a chance of turning out typical Francophone intellectuals. Brilliant, awesome, bombastic, impressive, trying really hard to impress, but more meandering around showing off the sparkling wit rather than digging deep at one spot. Taleb has this typical French-like style in his bones and education, and the financial analyst stuff came later in his life. It is possible to glean good ideas from that book, but there are a lot of superficial wit-sparkles to ignore, to be sure.
This post was so pretentious, I love the foolish signaling.
Citations listed here: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=64BtMdsAAAAJ&hl=en
4586 for Black Swan
875 for Fooled by Randomness
355 for Dynamic Hedging
read the rest
Kluppelberg talks about his work in her recent book who is also a coauthor of “Modeling Extremal Events”, I have seen Thorpe in a interview say that he was interested in betting on rare events since Taleb talked about it, co-editor of this journal http://www.iospress.nl/journal/risk-and-decision-analysis/ and the “Extreme Risk Initiative” with him & Tapiero is well… his.
Just scroll through his CV if anything.
Good ideas and annoying style are orthogonal issues, these are arguments to the first, not the other. The both can be seen side by side: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/12/05/nassim-taleb-is-annoying-but-antifragile-is-still-worth-reading/
He seems to have successfully completed the job and the people who call it annoying are a minority, it’s always some inflammatory side-attack and it gets old. Correctly predicted the crisis and calls out people who are harmful, seems like a great guy to me.
It would be useful to not evaluate a person as one whole person, or not as one whole set of works. Otherwise you are susceptible to halo or horn effects. It is more useful to see multiple different aspects. I can hate Ayn Rand and yet find her solution for the problem of the universals quite respectable. I can say Taleb’s math is excellent, was very predictive and just what the world needs while his way of writing books that attempt to talk about everything superficially not so good and wish he would focus more narrowly on his expertise instead of talking about everything.
You’re pushing it -_- give me a break.
OK
That post should be sufficient to demonstrate you don’t know what you’re saying to any third party.
You’re not saying anything except ad hominem and your mind seems to be nailed shut, so there doesn’t seem to be much point in continuing...
It must be so humiliating to be fake. Read Silent Risk or the Vol 2
random paper:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.7647v1.pdf
Some times I get together with a few buddies from Less Wrong and laugh at all the contrarian-hipsters(you) who instead of posting so much should just study. It’s important for people to be perceived accurately. Eliezer is misunderstood as is Taleb.