@nntaleb A Greek-Orthodox (me) will give a short lecture about reviving the language of the Maronites in …an Armenian place of worship in NY.https://twitter.com/rwnicholson_/status/862487002398195712 Permalink 7:28 PM – 10 May 2017
@nntaleb Squid ink pic.twitter.com/kOVTwQCQl5 Permalink 5:36 PM – 10 May 2017
@nntaleb It is easier to fool someone perceived as “intelligent” than a doorman. Just use abstract words in your argument. Permalink 3:57 PM – 10 May 2017
@nntaleb I don’t drink beer. Would bourbon do?https://twitter.com/realistgrower/status/862398036584022016 Permalink 1:20 PM – 10 May 2017
@nntaleb “Intelligent” Ivy-league people (those exam-taking idiots, IYIs) are structurally selected for finding patterns, not doubting them. Permalink 9:49 AM – 10 May 2017
@nntaleb Conspiracy theorizing reflects minds evolved enough to see patterns, but insufficiently to prune out the spurious. #FooledbyRandomness Permalink 9:13 AM – 10 May 2017
@RyderCleary WSJ editors have been reading their @nntaleb. #Antifragile pic.twitter.com/ZbE2V7wuFI Permalink 8:31 AM – 10 May 2017
@nntaleb Year end picture & class party w students of my class at School of Engineering NYU @nyutandon pic.twitter.com/kAK2E6cF81 Permalink 4:04 PM – 9 May 2017
@nntaleb Standing press (clean and press without the clean). Permalink 2:38 PM – 9 May 2017
@nntaleb Friends, what is the press equivalent to deadlifting 400lb? Permalink 2:35 PM – 9 May 2017
@MaxBlumenthal Bana Alabed & the White Helmets build on a grand tradition of pro-war psy-ops, most notably this Gulf War-era scam: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/15/opinion/deception-on-capitol-hill.html Permalink 12:20 PM – 9 May 2017
@CynicalSceptic_ Every day is a good day when @nntaleb and @GadSaad shit on the elitist establishment. God bless both of you!https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/861922504813797376 Permalink 6:23 AM – 9 May 2017
@nntaleb Corrected typos pic.twitter.com/hRUnADCV9k Permalink 5:36 AM – 9 May 2017
@nntaleb The skinny-fat warmonger is something new in history. Opening the discussion for my evo friends @johndurant @primalpoly @GadSaad pic.twitter.com/dnlSI3c12P Permalink 5:35 AM – 9 May 2017
@saifedean 5 decades of being predominantly unproductive consumers living off petrodollar rents cannot be reversed in a year, or even in a generation. Permalink 4:09 AM – 9 May 2017
@nntaleb If you worry about your reputation you don’t deserve to have one. Permalink 1:37 PM – 8 May 2017
@nntaleb Michael Flynn knew about Obama’s support for AlQaeda “rebels”https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/861611846452862976 Permalink 11:11 AM – 8 May 2017
@nntaleb The same probability as Hillary Clinton getting the Clay Prize for a complete mathematical solution of the P-NP problem or Navier-Stokes Eqhttps://twitter.com/tragure/status/861567498906456068 Permalink 6:18 AM – 8 May 2017
@nntaleb “To succeed, you need 2 things: ignorance and confidence” & “To fail, you need 2 things:ignorance and confidence” Defines #SurvivorshipBiashttps://twitter.com/howardshore/status/861544044886929409 Permalink 5:35 AM – 8 May 2017
@nntaleb The BS-buster @DanielLMcAdams debunks @anneapplebaum who’s half way between an unintelligent wind-vendor & a dangerous warmonging shill.https://twitter.com/RonPaulInstitut/status/861415665718218754 Permalink 4:58 AM – 8 May 2017
@nntaleb Nontraders & bureaucrats are under the illusion that if demand ↓1% price ↓1%. In fact demand ↓1% can cause (in squeezes) ↓50%! Kapish? Permalink 4:38 AM – 8 May 2017
@nntaleb http://www.thepetitionsite.com/471/732/427/save-man-from-death-in-saudi-arabia-for-quotatheism-and-blasphemyquot/?taf_id=36305784&cid=twitter Permalink 3:37 PM – 7 May 2017
@nntaleb How long before Saudi Barbaria undergoes a deep economic crisis, become literally bust? All it takes is demand for oil to drop by 5-12%. Permalink 2:15 PM – 7 May 2017
@nntaleb Mr Shahbandar, Arab bullshit vendors w/o scholarly credentials who shill for a living are ALSO fragile in their reputation. Kapish? Permalink 2:02 PM – 7 May 2017
@scrollinondubs thank u @nntaleb for all you do outing charlatans. you are a role model to us all via your service & sacrificeshttps://medium.com/incerto/the-skin-of-others-in-your-game-3f51d8ccc3fb Permalink 1:13 PM – 7 May 2017
@nntaleb Those of us worried abt alliance between @realDonaldTrump & Saudi Barbaria hope that he is just playing them.https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/861296116796579840 Permalink 12:34 PM – 7 May 2017
@nntaleb In 1960s, Cyprus, Lebanon & Malta had similar wealth, genes & culture. Cyprus & Malta embraced the West. Lebanon tried “Arabism”. Disaster. Permalink 4:57 AM – 7 May 2017
@nntaleb Clooney fears tweeting when drunk: actors are obsessed w/reputation. Also fears not taking AlQaeds script in Syria. Romans despised actors.https://twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/860952142865203201 Permalink 2:05 PM – 6 May 2017
@nntaleb IYIs, Intellectuals Yet Idiots, favor things that work in theory but not in practice to things that work in practice but not in theory. Permalink 9:24 AM – 6 May 2017
@nntaleb Something rings strange w/the wage gap: someone has to be an imbecile to overpay for gender when corps profitability lies in the last penny. Permalink 5:45 AM – 6 May 2017
@nntaleb Why people who deadlift /clean-press should have a pseudo-belly for stability: thin waistline is obtained artificially via machines. pic.twitter.com/H4VMLY9eyl Permalink 4:47 AM – 6 May 2017
@nntaleb I just published “The Skin of Others in your Game”https://medium.com/p/the-skin-of-others-in-your-game-3f51d8ccc3fb Permalink 3:27 AM – 6 May 2017
@nntaleb Mitanni were IndoEuropeans. Spec: + Mitanni were J2 + Assyrians and Phoenicians descend from Mitanni who took on Semitic lang. @PZalloua pic.twitter.com/nTEv2toRUI Permalink 2:29 AM – 6 May 2017
@nntaleb That’s Salibi’s bullshit. Looks like it was limited to Damascus. Permalink 4:40 PM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb French history textbooks hype up Napoleon’s “Egyptology”, do not mention that he attempted to destroy ALL ruins of Granada. Permalink 4:00 PM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb So either Ghassanids converted to Islam or they weren’t of J1 Haplogroup to start with. Permalink 2:29 PM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb Friends, there are claims that politicians on the “right” are much more personable & friendly to staff than those on “left”. Any data/refs? Permalink 2:12 PM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb DNA analyses hint that, contrary to legend, there are minimal numbers of Christians in thhe Levant who descend from Ghassanids. @PZallouahttps://twitter.com/byzantinepower/status/860587555250728960 Permalink 1:40 PM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb Nobody dare to discuss the male-female life expectance gap. Or the male-female prison population gap.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/860547324216586240 Permalink 10:34 AM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb Nobody is saying we shouldn’t learn about Napoleon. Except he should not be whitewashed. Kapish? Permalink 9:14 AM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb There is very little that is Mediterranean about the “French” (north of Avignon), except, of course, their language.https://twitter.com/panamaorange/status/860517319201742848 Permalink 8:34 AM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb Unconditional antifragility of information: it thrives from all visible attempts at suppression. Neofascists (libs, “left”) don’t get it. Permalink 8:23 AM – 5 May 2017
@pauld1981 French are suckers for hierarchy, they believe what the establishment tells them … where’s the Coluche of this time? Permalink 8:06 AM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb Heuristic: for international transactions, AVOID forum in country w/Napoleon’s code civil in favor of Anglo-style law. HK, SG, US… Kapish? Permalink 6:16 AM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb If you can make the French believe that a despot, Napoleon,can strengthen the “Revolution” w/an Imperial family, you can sell them anything! Permalink 5:46 AM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb I fail to understand why Napoleon doesn’t figure out among the criminally pathological nuts of history. Whitewashing by France?https://twitter.com/britishmuseum/status/860468604587868164 Permalink 5:35 AM – 5 May 2017
@nntaleb Aside from that, elections are NOT similar. Le Pen is not Trump, but a professional politician. Permalink 4:05 PM – 4 May 2017
@nntaleb Hillaryhttps://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/859492813968486401 Permalink 11:53 AM – 3 May 2017
@nntaleb Haven’t read @BretStephensNYT’s article (I don’t read pseudointellectual NYT). What we said abt climate & precaution https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/ppArXiv2.pdf ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/sZ00Nqu6pY”> pic.twitter.com/sZ00Nqu6pY Permalink 9:14 AM – 3 May 2017
@nntaleb Cory Doctorow @doctorow has been actively & knowlingly misrepresenting & trying to spead fake news about my position on homeopathy. Permalink 5:35 AM – 3 May 2017
@BisayaFilms #TalebXPhilippines pic.twitter.com/oyoMi7bqrZ Permalink 4:47 AM – 3 May 2017
@nntaleb Explaining how to price elections and why Nate Silver is clueeeeeeeeeless about probability. @realHarryCranehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA_3RwEIqzI Permalink 4:38 AM – 3 May 2017
@nntaleb Gitanos should be able to teach us a few things about flaneuring, survival, & soul in the music. Permalink 5:23 PM – 2 May 2017
@cedantarmatog1 Interesting article on @nntaleb at http://mises.org https://mises.org/blog/what-nassim-taleb-can-teach-us Permalink 1:22 PM – 2 May 2017
@nntaleb Friends, looking for reliable accounts on Spanish gypsies, one that is not written by some English or Cultural Studies professor. Permalink 9:30 AM – 2 May 2017
@nntaleb A government run by professionals is like a form or a trading house run by back office &support people. But firms go bust, govs expand. Permalink 5:29 AM – 2 May 2017
@nntaleb Read @HRW reports abt Aleppo 2016; turned out almost all AlQaeda dictated fiction. They didn’t retract. We should believe them… now?https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/859343010244546560 Permalink 4:56 AM – 2 May 2017
@nntaleb Just wrote the central comment of Skin in the Game: Systems learn by removing parts. pic.twitter.com/YalzjWcJut Permalink 3:09 AM – 2 May 2017
@nntaleb Applied math.https://twitter.com/stoicdaku/status/859085724125102080 Permalink 12:41 PM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies. The Bed of Procrustes Permalink 12:27 PM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb Burn old logs Drink old wine Read old books Keep old friends, Alphonso X, #LindyEffecthttps://twitter.com/CaesarIpse/status/859124709987950592 Permalink 12:22 PM – 1 May 2017
@MrAlexisPereira As @nntaleb once said, the reason why Trump is so comically bad at explaining things is that he’s never had a boss. Permalink 9:46 AM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb #skininthegame Jihadi women find it easy to make pronouncements living in Brooklyn, under Western protective laws. Sarsour is despicable.https://twitter.com/dontcarebut/status/824417602395070464 Permalink 8:34 AM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms (Heuristics): the young can afford to overeat, the elder should watch his quantities. He found it in Galen. pic.twitter.com/966sk527At Permalink 8:09 AM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb It is vastly more honorable to get rich THEN go to office than go to office THEREFORE get rich. Permalink 8:03 AM – 1 May 2017
@john_f_hamer @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/KVyXnwNgoQ Permalink 7:07 AM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb Peace: Neither Ink nor Blood http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/may/01/peace-neither-ink-nor-blood/#.WQc9dUTaLO4.twitter Permalink 6:52 AM – 1 May 2017
@maui4321 “An honest public servant can’t become rich in politics.” — Harry Truman Permalink 5:40 AM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb These idiots don’t get that the pblm isn’t making money, it’s using NONPROFIT sector to SUBSEQUENTLY get rich (Blair, Clintons, Husseins O)https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/858068645964115970 Permalink 4:44 AM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb (cont) Which sums up to: “You, and only you, know what’s best for you.” Permalink 4:06 AM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb Also: Non v ‘e piu bel messo che se stesso On ne trouve jamais meilleur messager que soi-meme Pretty much the foundation of #Libertarianism Permalink 4:00 AM – 1 May 2017
@nntaleb Motto of #SkinintheGame & Liberty “Your fingernail can best scratch your itch” Non scabat caput praeter unges tuo ما بحكك الا ظفرك in1614! pic.twitter.com/p96k7jHiHi Permalink 3:49 AM – 1 May 2017