You can see the entire talk here. Here’s the audio NNT’s portion of the panel. NNT at The Russia Forum 2011.
You can see the entire talk here. Here’s the audio NNT’s portion of the panel. NNT at The Russia Forum 2011.
Flanerie a Bruxelles en pensant a Jacques Brel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzAmrNS164
Jacques Brel – “Amsterdam” live
www.youtube.com
This is an incredible performance of “Amsterdam” by singer Jacques Brel. Try not to get chills watching this.
Is there a wiki editor here? Is there a way to block a mad & obsessive stalker from vandalizing a bio?
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Seems NNT is under attack on Wikipedia. He has more to say in the comments on this Facebook post. It’s confusing but it seems that the animosity towards him stems from a GQ article [links to PDF of NNT’s corrected version] that was published in 2009. If you’re interested, you can track all the players/stories here, The Taleb GQ-Emails.
A couple of people have volunteered to keep an eye on NNT’s Wiki page. If you’re a wiki editor, you might want to drop by the above Facebook thread to lend a hand.
The Sunday Time’s Robert Collins wrote a review of The Bed of Procrustes. It’s behind a paywall but NNT was kind enough to make it available from his site. Here’s a direct pdf download link.
And thanks to Dave Lull for letting me know.
Here’s an excerpt:
The likes of Facebook, though, get his epistemological hackles up: “Social networks present information about what people like; more informative if, instead, they described what they don’t like.” And so that’s precisely what Taleb does: gyms, economists, carbohydrates, journalists — he loathes them all. “I take a ritual bath after any contact, or correspondence (even emails), with consultants, economists, Harvard Business School professors, journalists, and those in similarly depraved pursuits.”
Oh, and don’t forget you: “Newspaper readers exposed to real prose are like deaf persons at a Puccini opera.”
But if there’s one thing that truly gets Taleb’s goat in his arch if uneven meditations, it’s jobs: “Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.” Which brilliantly proves how clever the maddeningly wise Taleb is: he’s cured himself of that problem completely.