Blocked by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In retrospect, I understand why he blocked me. It’s a good learning experience.
Blocker
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons. — Unknown
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@nntaleb Of course! https://t.co/Js0aeANcFz
And here are the tweets that got me blocked. I hope to make amends one day. I’m going to take the edge of my tweets going forward. I see that I can be brash and annoying when I believe down to my soul in my point.
@nntaleb Does that go for platforms too, or just individual users
@nntaleb There is a need for Critical Research AND Speculative Research
@iwangulenko @nntaleb Life is absurd until evil. ~ Camus, The Human Crisis https://t.co/X733XvBzOT
@nntaleb Heard there was a scaling problem with Bitcoin. https://t.co/ZBIbOnITUW Problem solved.
@nntaleb Interview request RE: Black Swan Event https://t.co/eygeBZLJAd Won’t Russell-Conjugate my questions.
@nntaleb @davidgraeber Russell Conjugations. Same as it ever was.
@nntaleb Can I nominate a High-School student?
@nntaleb Human Error’ll gitcha
@nntaleb The market will be satisfied. - Moore
@nntaleb https://t.co/KxOgZTtqa6 City-States; same as it ever was. Socrates Ship of Fools. https://t.co/clhyIH8BYW
@nntaleb Geographically-Determined.
@isaacfab00 @nntaleb @NateSilver538 Wrong. You’re all Wrong. 🤣🤣🤣 Garbage In, Garbage Out. - Bifurcation of Polis & Countryside https://t.co/dwO32C31ii - Politics is Show Business https://t.co/8OLfcifxTA - Zajonc’s Mere Exposure Effect https://t.co/4Kjg58UUe2 Your Math is no match for THE TRYPTYCH 🤣🤣🤣
@nntaleb The power of a Geographically-Determined Strategy by @profwitiger SunTzu Skininthegame SituationalAwareness https://t.co/m6CPkbqj2k cc: @swardley
@attractfunding @nntaleb @davidgraeber I agree with this. Arguing / debating is a form of negotiation, and you can tell a lot about a person by their opening offer in both cases.
— @BStizzl
@iwangulenko @nntaleb We can’t compare the US to Denmark because there are more people in the city of New York than there are in the country of Denmark. - Can’t Remember Source
@nntaleb Politics is Show Business. But you wouldn’t know about that.
@nntaleb Yes and No. Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners - require different levels of IQ. The Town Crier, on the other hand… cc: @swardley
Complexity Science = Evolutionary Ecology x Fourth Industrial Revolution cc: @trishankkarthik @normonics @swardley @nntaleb @dweinberger @BretWeinstein @EricRWeinstein @SamHarrisOrg @harari_yuval @HRoitblat @APompliano
@nntaleb @Safaitic Music preceded Language. It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. https://t.co/I8vczUFitm Namaste
@Decafquest @nntaleb who knew ‘academic’ would become an adjective of derision lmao
@attractfunding @nntaleb In the sense that is an almost echo chamber. they don’t allow anyone to publish. Except, of course, if you pay.
@Decafquest @nntaleb Thankfully, there are some Academics willing to address this. https://t.co/8zAY213Hvr
@nntaleb “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” - Goodhart’s Law paraphrased by Marilyn Strathern - Wikipedia
@nntaleb I dare anyone to find me a more hilarious calculus textbook. https://t.co/XM1158iE2k Calculus Made Easy - Silvanus P. Thompson (October, 1914)
https://t.co/GdkGIT7Gfd Imagine if @jordanbpeterson discussed IQ with @nntaleb cc: @RubinReport
@davidsarac @golchhaJ @johncarlosbaez @trishankkarthik @normonics @nntaleb @EricRWeinstein @stephen_wolfram https://t.co/4MOmR1dURo Case in point! cc: @paddykcl
@davidarredondo @epistemicist @nntaleb Have you come across David K. Foot? “Demographics are 2/3 of everything” = China will fill their empty cities soon enough https://t.co/SbwSieHaoh Applied Demographics In Startupland https://t.co/nnybiP5pgc Geography in Action https://t.co/yT5ne2Bne4 Nassim blocked me lol
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