@Helsingor Happy Rûm day to @byzantium1200, @byzantinepower, @byzyeileen, @nntaleb, @CryForByzantium and all of Byzantine twitter.https://twitter.com/AHMalcolm/status/897926213477347329 Permalink 2:06 PM – 16 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Homeopathy is useful PRECISELY because it doesn’t work. Can homeopathy can HELP the NHS? http://dailym.ai/1srK3Fo via @MailOnline Permalink 12:32 PM – 16 Aug 2017
@mjd1735 BBC News – Awamiya: Inside the devastated Saudi Shia town http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-40950353/awamiya-inside-the-devastated-saudi-shia-town @nntaleb @lionelbarber Permalink 8:45 AM – 16 Aug 2017
@KevorkAlmassian Says the guy who funded & armed religious fascists in my country, #Syria. @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/aCPq8cZNbn Permalink 4:58 AM – 16 Aug 2017
@nntaleb If journos talk about a risk, say Nuclear, ignore it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V7W46sOt38 Permalink 4:35 AM – 16 Aug 2017
@byzantinepower pic.twitter.com/vftDoELvTY Permalink 4:24 AM – 16 Aug 2017
@nntaleb A convincing illustration of what happens when you put nerds (IYIs) in charge of regulation. pic.twitter.com/4xu1eZfpXo Permalink 3:48 PM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Fat Tony explaining how “f*** you” money works in case Monsanto & Cambridge University are after you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdfeXqHFmPI Permalink 2:27 PM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Monsanto’s St Op Procedure: an online army demonizes GMO-skeptics. They also contact institutions & ask for removal, as they did w/Ceralini.https://twitter.com/luciansusanu/status/897459026975436800 Permalink 7:16 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@theQSLman .@nntaleb on procrastination. Superb insight. pic.twitter.com/RdRc7Y2RDh Permalink 7:06 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@theQSLmind .@nntaleb on procrastination. Superb insight. pic.twitter.com/RdRc7Y2RDh Permalink 7:06 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb So the British IYI pseudodiversity police were instantly turned into a Monsanto smear campaigning agent Union of 2 idiots is much more idiot Permalink 5:19 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb British IYI class is after me. Monsanto shills (@kevinFolta) join the smear campaign (since 2015, 2300 emails to NYU). Impotent #Antifragile pic.twitter.com/RMZ7oVd2pl Permalink 5:03 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb The exquisite precision & instant response (for both acceleration and deceleration) of the EV makes the non-electric car feel like a boat. Permalink 4:07 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This picture is more representative https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-insidious-racism-of-mary-beard-et-al-8b6b768b4575 ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/rlvb14HnUB”> pic.twitter.com/rlvb14HnUB Permalink 3:34 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I just published “The insidious racism of Mary Beard and the ‘diversity’ operators”https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-insidious-racism-of-mary-beard-et-al-8b6b768b4575 Permalink 3:32 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb First day driving a @TeslaMotors. Something else! I hope I will never ever have to drive a nonelectric car. Permalink 3:22 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@SimonMoores I really don’t think people are grasping what @nntaleb argument is. It’s really about the anc. population of http://N.Africa Permalink 3:07 AM – 15 Aug 2017
@nntaleb US Army embraces Antifragility http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/security-force-assistance-brigades-the-us-army-embraces-antifragility Permalink 5:52 PM – 14 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game | EconTalk |http://bit.ly/2vDpWqR Permalink 3:36 PM – 14 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Nobody is seeing what I am seeing? This piece of info,hapl of Ancient Greeks v. close to Canaanites? While linear b nonsemitic! Huge if truehttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/897031793240625152 Permalink 2:15 PM – 14 Aug 2017
@careygillam “Monsanto’s message is clear – stay out of its way,” say cancer victim lawyers @MonsantoCo wants sanctioned https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Andrus-Wagstaff-response-on-release-of-Monsanto-dox.pdf ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/p6duzdL9Wk”> pic.twitter.com/p6duzdL9Wk Permalink 1:18 PM – 14 Aug 2017
@RanaHarbi What the f did I just read pic.twitter.com/92cos5rvZj Permalink 11:50 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@normonics The sample space of reality is enormous. Therefore every narrative can be supported by ‘facts’ so long as they are selectively amplified. Permalink 9:39 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@asadabukhalil Look at this language:when he talks about Russian and Syrian repression he uses the world “slaughter”. For Saudis, he uses “excessive” forcehttps://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/896688115892486144 Permalink 9:36 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@Cyberlibris We used to be fooled by randomness, the truth is we are fooled by ergodicity! https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.07773.pdf @nntaleb @ole_b_peters #BigData #data Permalink 7:37 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@JegErAlan This, thanks to a @JacobWinski tweet, is the link that made me realize I should be skeptical about GMOs: http://fooledbyrandomness.com/PrecautionaryPrinciple.html https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/897009908276703232 Permalink 6:33 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Perfect! ABSENCE of haplogroup DOES NOT indicate absence of ancestry, but presence does! Permalink 4:28 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I just published “The insidious racism of Mary Beard et al.”https://medium.com/p/the-insidious-racism-of-mary-beard-et-al-8b6b768b4575 Permalink 4:20 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@nntaleb From the recent papers abt modern Greeks ~Mycenians, Minoans: G and J2 (even J1) haplogroups. pic.twitter.com/vMOz281dPe Permalink 2:47 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Jordan My data has no ethnicities (Tribal North Arabian, West Bank Palestinian, Circasn, etc.) But again, J1e, 10 times more than Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/aTme3UNIsS Permalink 1:40 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Syria as whole v. different from Leb, owing to high presence of J1e (Peninsula genes) from Arab conquest/trade. No granularity on West. Syr pic.twitter.com/difEdbiGVa Permalink 1:23 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@nntaleb He was also converted to skepticism about GMOs. Thank you, Twitter .https://twitter.com/JegErAlan/status/896932546193346561 Permalink 1:20 AM – 14 Aug 2017
@TheDuran_com Assange NAILS IS!http://theduran.com/julian-assange-asks-us-said-nothing-obama-supported-ukrainian-neo-nazis/ Permalink 2:57 PM – 13 Aug 2017
@nntaleb On plane back to NY tried to play with a messier probabilistic structure in genetics. @PZalloua pic.twitter.com/qD14r5Uu4I Permalink 1:10 PM – 13 Aug 2017
@nntaleb History Jumps! An aids for my discussion of probabilistic reasoning for history in my comment on the tirade of Klueless Massimohttps://twitter.com/normonics/status/896820612659912704 Permalink 12:54 PM – 13 Aug 2017
@nntaleb The GMO deception was over the day AMZN bought Whole Foods. AMZN is one order of magnitude bigger than Monsanto, typ. tactics won’t work. Permalink 11:39 AM – 13 Aug 2017
@spikedonline Brendan O’Neill on the poison of racial thinking pic.twitter.com/Cy3JC7Vfql Permalink 11:19 AM – 13 Aug 2017
@RamdasSunder @nntaleb This is Probability, not Stats. Closely related, but a good statistician is not automatically a good probabilist. Permalink 5:09 AM – 13 Aug 2017
@GuruAnaerobic Next time someone criticises Paleo diet cos they only lived til 35yrs, ask them if early death was “diet related” or disease, childbirth,etchttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/896614771973382145 Permalink 12:06 AM – 13 Aug 2017
@nntaleb If you are trying to figure out diet, genetics, and lifestyle, uncon LE is not the right measure. Permalink 11:27 PM – 12 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Flawed analysis: You shd only measure longevity by taking life expectancy conditional on being >50-60, not at birthhttp://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170807-living-in-places-where-people-live-the-longest?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter Permalink 11:09 PM – 12 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Antifragility World’s oldest man, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 113http://www.wpxi.com/news/world/media-worlds-oldest-man-a-holocaust-survivor-dies-at-113/589276130 Permalink 2:45 PM – 12 Aug 2017
@nntaleb My PhD thesis advisor/coauthor is a French woman mathematician. The committee had 2 women mathematicians. Nobody asked for a quota then.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/895493873094414336 Permalink 10:26 AM – 12 Aug 2017
@PaleoPhil And here is an example: History Channel’s “Barbarians Rising” portraying Hannibal as a black West African. pic.twitter.com/oY6CXNwTjZ Permalink 9:17 AM – 12 Aug 2017
@Christo59093308 @nntaleb Amazing!! The Black Swan in 2007, 1 yr before financial crisis! And now pg. 205 with mention of potential Syria crisis! #mustread Permalink 6:56 AM – 12 Aug 2017
@nntaleb BTW what Romans used to call “Arabs” were Nabateans, Northern Arabians, close to Jordanians & Hawranis Permalink 2:38 AM – 12 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Romans looked like other Meds at Ancient times: It was the Celts who were ethnic. @holland_tom citing Petronius. pic.twitter.com/aFgXunJ94D Permalink 12:44 AM – 12 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Ran into 2 Amioun-born New Yorkers Trump supporters at a party in Amioun. “If Amioun voted in the US elections, Trump would get 99%” #MAGA pic.twitter.com/gTCiNKvavf Permalink 4:07 PM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Who is @gchoran99 ? Not only he got the point about subsaharan genes but also that “historians are full of crap”.https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/896139383371317248 Permalink 3:58 PM – 11 Aug 2017
@alxpr1c3 6 pictorials exposing what A LOT, if not MOST, academic text-books are missing: #RIGOUR!https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/896005183993294848 Permalink 2:44 PM – 11 Aug 2017
@robertwjordway People say @nntaleb is nice in person but I disagree. He made me split a mini cannoli with him at @NECSI #diabetes Permalink 1:15 PM – 11 Aug 2017
@ghchammas Lebanese steak tartare. @nntaleb pic.twitter.com/uqmoGqIBTR Permalink 12:06 PM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Syria most probably comes from the Phoenician name for Anti-Lebanon. So, yes the name “Syria” correponds to 3 geographical areas in history. pic.twitter.com/ZTk3SzPI1s Permalink 10:03 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Also in Bible “Aram” is mentioned by which translations say Syria. But “Syria” doesn’t map to “Aram” & Syrion is ambiguous! Permalink 9:52 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Terms “Syria”, Blad eSham, & Syrion != Greek: Syria coela (Bekaa)+Antioch Syrion in Bible is AntiLebanon (Syrion ve Lvanon) Libanensis pbm Permalink 9:46 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb How to look at history using probabilistic reasoning: Pinned Brownian Bridges. Conditional on present and past, what can midpoints be? pic.twitter.com/NlGZYpEKps Permalink 7:33 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Real World Risk Pictorial Next Session Oct 2-6 http://realworldrisk.com/pictorial_view_of_the_program_by_dhaval Permalink 6:47 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb The problem is not just financial dependence. Wusses fear losing friends & not being invited to the parties if they defy the thoughtpolice. Permalink 6:15 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Amioun for the weekend, 1900 years. pic.twitter.com/aZEJzELsfC Permalink 5:33 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@AntifragileACC @nntaleb Working at a university and trying to shake up academia world! Thank you for all you do to push us! pic.twitter.com/3y6MYcsCxF Permalink 5:14 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb It was also for me a way to show the UK establishment they can’t play with independent people like me without eventually getting burned. Permalink 3:25 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@paulorrj No, basically it started with @wmarybeard being wrong & called out. So, she accused Taleb of sexism because of it.https://medium.com/@nntaleb/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a Permalink 3:22 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb More precise: Nubians somewhere there. pic.twitter.com/VMc7tNmAfM Permalink 3:20 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Don’t tell me my friend Tom Holland is falling into the Insidious Racism of the UK establishment! pic.twitter.com/rJJyaHkbdx Permalink 3:12 AM – 11 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Precautionary approach to climate. pic.twitter.com/FxW7wAE1u4 Permalink 4:36 PM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Faced that junk in the Air France lounge, JFK. Manager who spoke w/thick Marseilles accent promised to replace w/documentaries on animals. pic.twitter.com/pEB9YnEjgS Permalink 4:33 PM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This is more granularity about Lebanese (all religions) and Armenians pic.twitter.com/aqfwoF0YrI Permalink 1:28 PM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Gulf government gave SECRET $20 million gift to D.C. think tank https://interc.pt/2vQNz1K by @ryangrim Permalink 1:15 PM – 10 Aug 2017
@JacobWinski Just received The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics and it’s wonderful. Thank you @nntaleb for the tip, really appreciate it. pic.twitter.com/C6IgqsVi1F Permalink 10:55 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Thus guy is an intellectual fraud. Nonlinear domains like climate & markets!= mechanics like solar eclipses. If it were true he wd be rich.https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/895634473425014785 Permalink 10:55 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb So we can start the great East Med Peace Project by convincing Turks Cypriots, Greeks (etc.) they are 1st cousins. Permalink 4:42 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Fat Tony is J2b. So my prediction: Mafia dons are predominantly J2. We can try to test it. Permalink 4:28 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This map confirms my grandmother’s heurisitc: if people eat the same they look the same… and have similar genetic makeup Permalink 4:24 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb And note that the Arab J1e (invaders) subclade is practically non existent in Leb, high in Palestine. Permalink 4:13 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@alexdelprete Giustamente Nassim ci ricorda che il sud italia è Magna Grecia: aplogruppo J2 (18-30%) ed E1b1b (15-25%) http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/italian_dna.shtml https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/895599465381339137 Permalink 4:10 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Also note that Sunnis have about as much J2 as the rest. Permalink 3:58 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This chart will cause a shock to Lebanese national identity. And perhaps Turkish. Note that Southern Italy is also blue (Magna Grecia) pic.twitter.com/J9fsWp8f8E Permalink 3:55 AM – 10 Aug 2017
@nntaleb What SJW don’t get is the implied racism of “white” & “colored”: if you mix white & colored you get colored. That implies purity not race. Permalink 5:30 PM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I was told that traditionally royals shd never say “thank you”, “please”, “sorry”, etc. because you don’t say it to subjects. True? Refs? Permalink 4:00 PM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Turned out in England politeness is something for the middle class. Aristocrats are exempt. Any literature on that? Permalink 2:39 PM – 9 Aug 2017
@MaxAbrahms The problem was meeting him for coffee. Everyone knows you must meet for squid ink or frog legs. Permalink 1:11 PM – 9 Aug 2017
@MaxAbrahms If Twitter teaches you anything…it’s unwise to try to publicly outwit @nntaleb. Permalink 12:38 PM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I am very direct. I asked the doctor; he said can’t do anything about it. So you need to live with it. Permalink 11:57 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Here is 90% of the words used in N Levantine ordinary conv. Most are Ugaritic/Canaanite Also see grammar https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/semitic-3.pdf Permalink 11:31 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Real estate, like fish, starts rotting from the top.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/895113331488567296 Permalink 9:58 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb The bigger problem is that Google is a utility. Yet it does not fall under the 1st amendement. This is what worries me the deepest.https://twitter.com/TehNormster/status/895320753268183040 Permalink 9:30 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb OK, OK, I will say it publicly. I viscerally don’t like S. Pinker, but I will take every RISK to help him fight insidious censorship. Permalink 9:15 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Where is the real “left”? Those who wd say: “I detest what you write, bt I wd give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write” Permalink 8:41 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb OK Ok Damore is a hero. He knowingly took risk. Permalink 7:55 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This entire idea of bicolorism categorization destroys the notion that humans are humans, and once you classify you destroy something. Permalink 7:44 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This entire idea of bicolorism categorization destroys the notion that humans are humans, and once you classify you destroy something. Permalink 7:44 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Which is why the word “white” shd never be used for race as it means nothing. The only “white” pple may be albino.s. Permalink 7:30 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This guy @adammerberg has been helping Monsanto trolls attacking our work on the prec. pple by lying about the mathematical “mistakes”. Permalink 7:24 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Thanks for correcting me. Damore is not a hero. He is a victim. I honor pple who correct my mistakes w/o trolling.https://twitter.com/tinylessons/status/895287275864694784 Permalink 7:18 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb So Italy shd be divided in two races, the “whites” and the “xxxx” (actually there is a word in Italian)? For Rome it depends on the suburb? Permalink 7:16 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb If you did ethnicities in Roman England, I think most Mediterranean Romans would be considered “Ethnic” by today’s metric. Permalink 7:06 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb “N N Taleb does not suffer fools gladly.” I want it on my epitaph.https://mises.org/blog/what-nassim-taleb-can-teach-us#.WYrzxxjskjo.twitter Permalink 4:37 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb It is thanks to regulators that Monsanto managed to ghostwrite its own safety reviews.https://twitter.com/Masoninblue/status/895239660020092928 Permalink 4:07 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Monsanto was its own ghostwriter for safety reviews https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/monsanto-was-its-own-ghostwriter-for-some-safety-reviews via @BW Permalink 3:37 AM – 9 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I got 2 citations from Damore today: Individual variations vs categories. The Universal destroys the particular pic.twitter.com/UQCN44xzAx Permalink 7:11 PM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I just published “Comment on ‘Klueless Massimo’s Comments (Massimo Pigliucci) of the Mary Beard (Twitter) debate”https://medium.com/p/comment-on-klueless-massimo-s-comments-massimo-pigliucci-of-the-mary-beard-twitter-debate-4c99a36de40 Permalink 6:18 PM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb The only way to prevent institutions from rotting is by automatic dissolution, to have the same life expectancy as free-market companies. Permalink 5:12 PM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I wrote an entire book on Mathematics of History since EVERY path is a historical “Brownian Bridge” from Fooled by Randomness pic.twitter.com/1H8oI5mV21 Permalink 11:52 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Academia/journos are nice housebroken submissive dogs. By collectivelly going against me they didn’t realize they need to fight a wolf. Permalink 10:16 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb 8) I did not read the article in full, just random glances, each time I find a mistake. Permalink 9:08 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb 7) Klueless Massimo @mpigliucci (how can one make so many mistakes in a single article? Doesn’t know abt TIME SERIES ? pic.twitter.com/dH5kdXqbcl Permalink 9:07 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb (I exchanged comments with him on twitter.) Permalink 8:26 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Did not read @NickCohen4’s blog based on heuristic: Never read anything by someone abt you if you would never read him abt anything else. Permalink 8:18 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Nassim Taleb Warns “Something Is Broken In The UK Intellectual Sphere” | Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-07/nassim-taleb-warns-something-broken-uk-intellectual-sphere Permalink 7:59 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Klueless Massimo “expert” in Stoic virtues s.a. courage. Like nuns “experts” in sexual positions. If you don’t take risk, STFU abt courage.https://twitter.com/mpigliucci/status/894765199726477312 Permalink 7:55 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb 6) Klueless Massimo @mpigliucci, department of bullshit. He talks about STATISTICS by referring to STAT 101. pic.twitter.com/IMIq4BlzV0 Permalink 6:57 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Here is a more technical way to view the “otherness” in terms of distance, differential entropy. pic.twitter.com/vv9A0WXMwJ Permalink 5:22 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb And, BTW, @mpigliucci ‘s account has nothing to do w/my argument, outlined in my Medium post. https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a @davidpapineau Permalink 4:40 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb And, BTW, @mpigliucci ‘s account has nothing to do w/my argument, outlined in my Medium post. https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a @davidpapineau Permalink 4:40 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I am sure @kateantiquity and @caitlinrgreen would agree with my message that ethnicities shd not be binarized/lumped as “other”. pic.twitter.com/CmgE5n5CU0 Permalink 4:26 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Independently an Italian fellow nails it! Same point as mine about the insidious racism of Mary Beardhttps://twitter.com/SiamolaGente/status/894856398806409216 Permalink 4:07 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb To actually understand what Mary Beard and the UK PolNazis are getting wrong. (h/t Google hero) pic.twitter.com/cUqyZsNNb2 Permalink 3:40 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@primalpoly The original #googlememo, including all its links to research, which @Gizmodo deleted before criticizing it as lacking empirical support.https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/894816981521772545 Permalink 2:34 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Pple are surprised that Turkey speaks Turkish w/little Turkic genes, Lebanon has no Arab genes, not that India speaks English w/o Engl genes Permalink 2:13 AM – 8 Aug 2017
@nntaleb A great description of how ritual defamation is done. Problem: #antifragility of some.https://twitter.com/__ice9/status/894757155437297665 Permalink 8:14 PM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb If they can. Only if they can.https://twitter.com/prestonjbyrne/status/894272812751499265 Permalink 8:07 PM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb That has been my point all my life. Western Civilization is Med. Diversity should be olive oil vs butter, not Euro vs “other”. Idiots.https://twitter.com/francisalonso86/status/894616311086686212 Permalink 11:02 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Something torturing me. I receive a Tesla this week & something abt state subsidies troubles my conscience as a localist-libertarian. Permalink 10:30 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Actually, I can guesstimate from the decline in rate of blocking by bot of UK SWJ trolls and journos over past 12h that it has to be <1%. Permalink 10:10 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This man gets it.https://twitter.com/Billare/status/894589364625428480 Permalink 9:31 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb The big question: How much do the Political Correct Universalist Nazis represent of the UK pple: 3%? Less? More?https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 Permalink 7:36 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Mike Duncan @mikeduncan concluded abt my exchange w/Mary Beard not veifying if she did not falsify the nature of encounter. ShoddyHistorianhttps://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/894531394814259203 Permalink 6:35 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@primalpoly Google HR: ‘There are no sex differences’ Google AdWords: ‘You bought books on programming? Here are ads for GQ magazine and Cialis’ pic.twitter.com/Dtn2vvNfoI Permalink 6:09 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I actually followed @mikeduncan on twitter until I listened in podcast to a subject I know well, Seneca, & saw he was a bullshitter. Permalink 5:23 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb How can you trust a “historian” like @mikeduncan if he doesn’t have the instinct to look for other side of story? https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/893189129638490119 Permalink 4:42 AM – 7 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I can feel in my bones, from the #googlememo (and my UK story) that something is starting to crumble. I mean, to crumble. Permalink 6:39 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@LorenzoWVilla (I believe that) This statement is extremely accurate and extremely funny. Permalink 6:03 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb But, fundamentally, saying “I am a woman hence I have a license to call everyone who bothers me a misogynist” infuriates me. Permalink 2:59 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Beard said “accurate” which got me going. Then backtracked Then misrepresented the exchange abt credentials. Then used the feminist cover. pic.twitter.com/FOKqWJ6JXm Permalink 2:57 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@karoumy I screencapped it in time. pic.twitter.com/KfN64aYJlr Permalink 2:28 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@RBeisert Taleb called a UK “historian” out for revisionism. People stamped their feet impotently while antifragile Taleb laughed. Permalink 2:10 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Please ban all my “pop risk” books. Enact rules to make them illegal on campus. Please put the burning on youtube, please!https://twitter.com/soniarothwell/status/894299329715941378 Permalink 1:52 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I knew there was something wrong with the Green Party’s support of war in Syria. But they extend their “environmental” to Roman Britain.https://twitter.com/WhyToVoteGreen/status/894283635662127104 Permalink 1:12 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb I get tons of that crap, now w/a bot blocking them. Basically it is very OK to be a bullshitter if “good manners”. The UK self-destructing?https://twitter.com/janeknappster/status/894278567995088900 Permalink 12:30 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Salibi claims Lebanon had wave of settlements byYemenis. No trace of J1e among Sunnis. Historian texts= hearsay + fabrication + some truth pic.twitter.com/KuTtE4p3OQ Permalink 12:07 PM – 6 Aug 2017
@Chateaubriand__ This raises the important point that, by inserting implausible contemporary diversity, the BBC ignored the real diversity of Roman Britain.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/893456839375032322 Permalink 10:34 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@Cernovich Intelligence bureaucrats disdain @nntaleb risk management. Firing Flynn robbed America of one of our greatest minds. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/michael-flynn-general-chaos ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/X2JCVBI2LA”> pic.twitter.com/X2JCVBI2LA Permalink 10:22 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb In UK, It is misogynist to not deal w/a woman as one would w/a man. But if you deal w/a woman as you would w/a man, you are also mysogynist. Permalink 9:53 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb This is how Syrians looked. Like Romans. And the Berbers. Diversity was Mediter vs U.K. Mary Beard keeps her BS going. pic.twitter.com/nP8hYafBVK Permalink 9:31 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb More bullshit by Mary Beard: Berbers and Syrians were Mediterraneans, close to Romans in looks, the “diversity” doesn’t work there. pic.twitter.com/p9sudkvG38 Permalink 9:09 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb PLEDGE: If I ever, over my lifetime make a BS nondisconfirmatory historical statement, you are allowed to abuse me! @alexapostolideshttps://twitter.com/alexapostolides/status/894214800913428480 Permalink 8:40 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb All I can say so far: very roughly, Palestinians are Meds on their mother’s side, Arabs on their father’s. Exhilarating to read history Permalink 7:59 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb pic.twitter.com/ZCQpzG45Ix Permalink 7:53 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Palestinian genetic distance using cross-entropy on Mito DNA, female lineage pic.twitter.com/ixCepwzz5G Permalink 7:46 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Mr (bullshitter Johnson, here is what we know about the “African” Punicshttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/dna-sequencing-of-ancient-phoenician-remains-could-make-us-reconsider-the-history-of-human-movement-a7048046.html Permalink 6:35 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@eamonn @nntaleb is not “alt-right”, but he did call Mary Beard a “bullshitter.” Here’s why:https://medium.com/incerto/something-is-broken-in-the-uk-intellectual-sphere-7efc9a1f154a Permalink 6:05 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb The J1e pic.twitter.com/x8usv8tCTF Permalink 6:01 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb Jim Pickard @PickardJE of the FT engaged in same w/me but, 8 years later, is PROUD of it. When journos are despicable, they are despicable.https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/894092020494381056 Permalink 5:21 AM – 6 Aug 2017
@nntaleb The Palestinians appear to be ~one third/half Mediterranean, one third/half Arabs. 8 times more traces of Peninsula Arabs than Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/1lBUSe8VVA Permalink 4:38 AM – 6 Aug 2017