I’m not sure I understand your hypothetical scenario. Is our author’s message “no matter what you are doing, play the King’s Gambit” or “no matter what you are doing, do something analogous to the King’s Gambit”?
If the former, then I bet you are fighting a straw man. Does Taleb (or anyone) actually claim that we should ignore everything other than financial investment?
If the latter, then I don’t see how your argument actually engages. E.g., Taleb might claim that the things you say we should be doing instead of earning and investing actually fall into one or other of his categories of “as safe as you can manage” and “exposing you to lots of black-swan upside”.
My apologies, by the way, if I am (or seem to be) “aggressively missing the point”. For the avoidance of doubt, that’s not my intention.
Doesn’t seem like anyone’s aggressively missing the point this time, thanks for engaging :)
I’m not sure I understand your hypothetical scenario. Is our author’s message “no matter what you are doing, play the King’s Gambit” or “no matter what you are doing, do something analogous to the King’s Gambit”?
Praise of the king’s gambit as a chess opening, mixed with descriptions of generalized strategies for playing adversarial games, in ways that subtly but pervasively imply that it’s a central case of game-playing. This is likely to cause readers, on the margin, to notice games where something like the King’s Gambit is available and ignore the ones where it’s inapplicable.
I’m not sure I understand your hypothetical scenario. Is our author’s message “no matter what you are doing, play the King’s Gambit” or “no matter what you are doing, do something analogous to the King’s Gambit”?
If the former, then I bet you are fighting a straw man. Does Taleb (or anyone) actually claim that we should ignore everything other than financial investment?
If the latter, then I don’t see how your argument actually engages. E.g., Taleb might claim that the things you say we should be doing instead of earning and investing actually fall into one or other of his categories of “as safe as you can manage” and “exposing you to lots of black-swan upside”.
My apologies, by the way, if I am (or seem to be) “aggressively missing the point”. For the avoidance of doubt, that’s not my intention.
Doesn’t seem like anyone’s aggressively missing the point this time, thanks for engaging :)
Praise of the king’s gambit as a chess opening, mixed with descriptions of generalized strategies for playing adversarial games, in ways that subtly but pervasively imply that it’s a central case of game-playing. This is likely to cause readers, on the margin, to notice games where something like the King’s Gambit is available and ignore the ones where it’s inapplicable.