nntaleb: The more I read him, the more I realize John Gray (the philosopher not the pop-psych) is the greatest and most lucid thinker on the planet.
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John Gray Wikipedia page.
nntaleb: Excerpts from my lecture www.fooledbyrandomness.com/OxfordBTLecture
nntaleb: I wonder if Gregg Easterbrook will do the honorable thing of removing his NYT review of The Black Swan.
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Anyone know what the back story is here? I checked out the review and wonder why NNT would be bringing up a 2007 review.
Is there a stinger in there somewhere?
JH
nntaleb: (in the process of deleting all past aphorisms owing to copyright matters)
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Never heard of anyone deleting their Tweets before. They are definitely archived in numerous places on the web. I wonder what is meant by ‘copyright matters’. I wonder if the book will consist of the aphorisms alone or will have additional content. JH
nntaleb: Half of life’s sucker problem can be summarized with the pig staring at pearls; the other half is with what you are staring at right now.