Audio Only (Right Click to Download): My Chat With Nassim Taleb
A discussion with his Gadness @GadSaad about Skin in the Game. Gad understands costly signaling & ecological rationality & doesn't dumb down.
My best video discussions ever, one of the two best discussions (other coming Monday with @econtalk (econtawk)https://t.co/XfTiKPnM16
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) March 1, 2018
"Without the threat of adverse consequences, people will not be motivated to provide the best advice, decisions or investments" – new blog from @AlexJHitchcock on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's latest book & its implications for the UK government: https://t.co/UZEsVjPGIm pic.twitter.com/4Kvp4G1wc0
— Reform (@reformthinktank) March 2, 2018
@jacoporomei Squid ink in Italy is squid ink. Ciao a tutti. @nntaleb you know what you’re missing here. ;-) pic.twitter.com/wRNEfR3F2L Permalink 11:54 AM – 4 Mar 2018
@MaxAbrahms It’s crucial for the public to understand how foreign governments pay US-based think tanks to provide most of the expert commentary for the media, leading to factually inaccurate, dangerous foreign policy advocacy.https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/970283411750473728?s=21 Permalink 11:15 AM – 4 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Finalmente! Et complevit libri itinere! No more lecktchurs! Nunc autem scribo a reliquis duobus annis. Ego igitur studere “Probability puzzles” (aenigmata) , legere libros in linguam Latinam, et non et non errare, ut in textu hic. —so I don’t make mistakes as the ones here. Permalink 9:43 AM – 4 Mar 2018
@EmmaRoseHurst Something isn’t quite right about this placement @nntaleb #books #skininthegame pic.twitter.com/KOOvS9QxWA Permalink 7:27 AM – 4 Mar 2018
@CutTheKnotMath Illustrated Sum of Cubes – All in a Plane https://www.cut-the-knot.org/m/Arithmetic/SumOfCubes.shtml #FigureThat #math #algebra #arithmetic ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/okZb42fmpQ”> pic.twitter.com/okZb42fmpQ Permalink 5:59 AM – 4 Mar 2018
@reformthinktank ‘Skin in the game in public services’ – new blog from @AlexJHitchcock after the publication of @nntaleb’s book & its implications of accountability in decision-making for the UK Government: http://bit.ly/2F58mnD #reform #accountability #decisionmaking ” target=”_blank”>http://pic.twitter.com/CLvC4IFtGD”> pic.twitter.com/CLvC4IFtGD Permalink 1:45 AM – 4 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Is @AUB_Lebanon bowing to Saudi pressures? If shown to be true, I will be obligated to return my honorary doctorate.https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi/status/969927685089742848 Permalink 6:27 AM – 3 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Revenge book reviews no longer work: journos now have skin in the game. @nntalebhttps://medium.com/incerto/the-controversy-around-skin-in-the-game-6d46416ee47f?source=twitterShare-f138bf5466fe-1520085251 Permalink 5:55 AM – 3 Mar 2018
@paulorrj “The more humans try to be half-gods, the more they become half-monsters.” https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/10154053650028375 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/768454761620332544 Permalink 4:20 AM – 3 Mar 2018
@trishankkarthik The courageous Alan Dershowitz: “In 50 years of teaching at Harvard, Stanford, NYU … you name it, I have never met a group of less courageous people in my whole life than tenured … professors.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc86fPirz3A Permalink 9:41 PM – 2 Mar 2018
@giladmp “If you have an audience and you are not going against something bigger, more powerful than yourself – you are a bullsh*t vendor.” -@nntaleb I have tried really hard to come up with exceptions. I couldn’t find any. Permalink 6:39 PM – 2 Mar 2018
@nntaleb 3) Here is Pinker’s spinning like a BS vendor to answer technical points. Charlatan. pic.twitter.com/k0JfPpQdm2 Permalink 3:23 PM – 2 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Destroy Lobbies. The cancer of democracies.https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/969663633633435653 Permalink 12:05 PM – 2 Mar 2018
@semperfidem2004 @rolandvstewart @UxbEconomist07 @paulrey99 @New_Westphalian @GrahamGords1001 @HadjMDahou must watch. Terrific discussion. Taleb’s short comparison between spread of Wahabi Islam (roughly half way through) nails ithttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/969178720970989568 Permalink 10:23 AM – 2 Mar 2018
@nntaleb The Biggest Takeaways from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Book “Skin In The Game” – Part Onehttp://www.nuggetsofthought.com/2018/03/02/skin-in-the-game-part-one/ Permalink 7:53 AM – 2 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Actually a very hostile interviewerhttps://soundcloud.com/theeconomist/economist-asks-should-leaders Permalink 7:35 AM – 2 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Interview with @TheEconomist @annemcelvoyhttps://soundcloud.com/theeconomist/economist-asks-should-leaders Permalink 7:15 AM – 2 Mar 2018
@gllowin Made my day to hear @nntaleb discuss #skininthegame yesterday. But sir – next time in a gym (deadlifts only), to test body as well as mind? pic.twitter.com/GXAuBVd1b2 Permalink 6:03 AM – 2 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Someone before the lecktchur introduced himself to me as “Ex-Muslim”. So I introduced myself in return as “Ex-Intellectual” (also spelled Ex-Intellecktchual).https://twitter.com/BarbaraFillon/status/969381327513554944 Permalink 5:09 AM – 2 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Policy implications from Skin in the Gamehttps://twitter.com/reformthinktank/status/969504864840675333 Permalink 4:59 AM – 2 Mar 2018
@nntaleb 2) Actually, Steven Pinker @sapinker is MISREPRESENTING the exchange. I merely asked for his email and the chance to discuss something by mail about his MS. He gave it to me and NO discussion of specifics took place. No wonder he has some difficulties with the truth. Permalink 11:39 AM – 1 Mar 2018
@nntaleb Yes, I know it is complicated… pic.twitter.com/kDrBRYsZ7z Permalink 9:25 AM – 1 Mar 2018
@nntaleb This explains why I went into my library in 2009 & left the circuit.https://www.ft.com/content/0380eb28-1c17-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6 Permalink 8:01 AM – 1 Mar 2018
@nntaleb 2) Announcement: Does anyone know the Haplogroup of the Jandalis of Homs? Do you know any Jandali who did his DNA?https://twitter.com/Grurray/status/969221929847721984 Permalink 6:49 AM – 1 Mar 2018
@thackerpd Corporate funded organizations are actively trying to obscure #FOIA importance and rebrand it as “harassment” In this email, Jon Entine of the Genetic Literacy Project and Rebecca Goldin of STATS work with Keith Kloor to gin up this narrativehttps://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4391176-Kloor-and-Jon-Entine-and-Rebecca-Goldin-FOIA.html Permalink 6:45 AM – 1 Mar 2018
@nntaleb IRONY of History: Where you discover that Alan Dershowitz @AlanDersh and the Hashemites of Mecca and Jordan share a common great…great…grandfather. J1e is the Arab subclade. To get the exact degree we need the subclades/haplotypes. pic.twitter.com/fr0JAVgLja Permalink 6:36 AM – 1 Mar 2018
@nntaleb More evidence that Pinker @sapinker is a charlatan. I pointed out technical flaw: responds by shifting focus/demonizing the messenger. So far Pinker NEVER answered our querry. He turned down an invitation by the Nobel Foundation to respond. Charlatan! http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/violencenobelsymposium.pdf https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/969161195885383680 Permalink 6:08 AM – 1 Mar 2018
@nntaleb A discussion with his Gadness @GadSaad about Skin in the Game. Gad understands costly signaling & ecological rationality & doesn’t dumb down. My best video discussions ever, one of the two best discussions (other coming Monday with @econtalk (econtawk)https://youtu.be/ezhjumayRsg Permalink 3:53 AM – 1 Mar 2018
@chandrarsrikant .@nntaleb on entrepreneurs who ‘cash out’: “This form of entrepreneurship is the equivalent of bringing great-looking and marketable children into the world with the sole aim of selling them at age four” #skininthegame pic.twitter.com/KrIZ3H92n3 Permalink 10:55 PM – 28 Feb 2018
@nntaleb We now suspect this to be false. Genetics are like paternity tests. Marsa BTW means “harbor” in Phoenician? Ramatuelle-> hill of Godhttps://twitter.com/archeromaion/status/969015011879346176 Permalink 5:12 PM – 28 Feb 2018
@nntaleb With @GadSaad : One Hebraio-Phoenician debates a Greco-Phoenicianhttps://youtu.be/ezhjumayRsg Permalink 1:02 PM – 28 Feb 2018
@nntaleb 5) Was wondering if Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams was a lunatic to review a book (Skin in TG, see above) w/0 getting anything right & not realizing she could be caught. Turns out she is indeed a lunatic: she invents facts. Guardian retracted piece below.https://twitter.com/Legatum/status/968849521743720448 Permalink 12:30 PM – 28 Feb 2018
@GadSaad My Chat with @nntaleb (THE SAAD TRUTH_597): https://youtu.be/ezhjumayRsg . Enjoy, share, and consider supporting my efforts via @patreon and/or @paypal. Permalink 9:18 AM – 28 Feb 2018
@GadSaad I just finished my chat with The Merciful Greco-Phoenician Grand Emperor @nntaleb. We could have gone on for another five hours. Get ready. It’s a good one! Permalink 8:10 AM – 28 Feb 2018
@tallcoachcd @nntaleb THE book arrived yesterday and we read the introduction this morning. Then my wife turned the book over and was reading the quotes, and on the back cover: “For my wife and me, Antifragile is an annual read.” Colle from Richmond, Virginia (Twitter) pic.twitter.com/bnV9Y6k0Jw Permalink 6:54 AM – 28 Feb 2018
@turlevnon Rax Ellak Mamnunak bel leğğa l’lebnéniyé yalli ent betxebba Nexna mnekbar fik Malfonô Tawdi Sagi @nntaleb #Skin_in_the_game pic.twitter.com/oovBnr0exS Permalink 5:39 AM – 28 Feb 2018
@nntaleb Which is why I refuse honorary degrees & awards. They give you an award, then they own you.https://twitter.com/thehill/status/968603916924579841 Permalink 7:12 PM – 27 Feb 2018
@nisfrome Studied the Talmud for 12 years in Yeshiva but learned more about applying its lessons to the real world in first chapter of @nntaleb #SkinInTheGame pic.twitter.com/MGKJuWuvmL Permalink 4:53 PM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb My NYU lecktchur today: Lindy effect, use chalk and blackboard. pic.twitter.com/XrRvQ1OTmK Permalink 2:51 PM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb Where I discover via Twitter that I am a confirmed participant at the Complex System Uber-Conference!https://twitter.com/NECSI/status/966716782231916546 Permalink 11:47 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@GadSaad OK folks. Greco-Roman Emperor @nntaleb and I will be chatting tomorrow at 10:00 am EST (taped). It will be one of many short chats (series) that we’ll be holding. Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride. May Darwin be with me! Permalink 9:40 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb GUESSING GAME: The @FT Book Review above by @johngapper has the following # of errors in reading comprehension: Permalink 9:24 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@IbnKhaldune In the past, it was impossible to fight against bullies who bought ink by the truckload. Twitter has allowed you to now have your own “printing press” and to fight back just as hard. It’s glorious to watch them squirm. Permalink 7:02 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@Praxicle You are the authentic SITG entrepreneur of this generation. Thank you for everything I’ve learned from your books, distilled from courage via action & insight. A big fan of all your work, the only symmetry I can payback is in having taught my kids about SITG and then living it.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/968482939414728704 Permalink 7:01 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb 4) I am standing ALONE against half of Fleet Street, with millions or readers, and a vicious mob-lynching mentality, ALONE against an army of journos, and f*** idiot call me a “bully”?https://twitter.com/Real_EdLam/status/968481387333476358 Permalink 5:48 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb 3) EERIE: journos making, 11 years later, the SAME mistakes about the same points… Permalink 5:41 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb For instance 11 years from now their comments will still be part of a manual exposing their mistakes for case studies for students in journalism. 11 years ago, this imbecile @EasterbrookG reviewed The Black Swan. pic.twitter.com/oaHtb7yF2J Permalink 5:35 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb Journalists are used to people being terrorized by them, particularly those “powerful yet slaves”; they feel entitled to viciously smear those they can smear. They aren’t used to someone defiant & crazy enought to hound them back one by one. One by one, doggedly.https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/968255610293760006 Permalink 5:29 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb This also explains the failure of mean-field in the Selfish Gene derivations: a function of an average is not an average of functions. cc:@yaneerbaryam https://youtu.be/hRwimmE2wEk via @YouTube Permalink 5:21 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb Lkbir ma bi-zaghghér w l zghir ma bi-kabbérhttps://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/761679663001468929 Permalink 4:38 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb Philology, Musing Du jour: Both Ar. Sahar (vigil, wake, evening gathering, moonlighting) and Shahr (month), seem to come from the same Phoenician-Hebrew-Aramaic סהר = Moon, Crescent. Shhr (reputation) could be another root. Is it Persian (شهر => )? pic.twitter.com/8f53uTvVRI Permalink 4:32 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@nntaleb First kontact with readers…https://twitter.com/JackPhotonics/status/968435895530639361 Permalink 3:38 AM – 27 Feb 2018
@GadSaad Issues that you’d like @nntaleb and I to cover on THE SAAD TRUTH. Go! Permalink 12:34 PM – 26 Feb 2018
@nntaleb Henry I Miller has feen fired from Forbes & Project Syndicate (& his articles removed) after the discovery that Monsato was writing his articles. Some sites, s.a. @NRO and @statnews resist firing him. Is it evidence these sites are also Monsanto funded/fronts? Permalink 8:16 AM – 26 Feb 2018
@nntaleb There is a SEVERE problem with @statnewshttps://twitter.com/garyruskin/status/968149184808329217 Permalink 7:47 AM – 26 Feb 2018
@nntaleb Universalism leads to monoculture. Incompatible with complex systems. Thread.https://twitter.com/normonics/status/968115147754655744 Permalink 7:02 AM – 26 Feb 2018
@nntaleb Ha! SITG making it into policy even BEFORE publikaschion! pic.twitter.com/q6ayagvqQB Permalink 5:50 AM – 26 Feb 2018
@nntaleb I just published “The Controversy around Skin in the Game”https://medium.com/incerto/the-controversy-around-skin-in-the-game-6d46416ee47f Permalink 1:57 AM – 26 Feb 2018