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Sat Sep 20 15:40:07 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, actually, the conversations in finance are not as cohesive unfortunately as in other fields, so the flipside of that is today the popular strand of conversation happens to be a fork that the more seriously inclined would not fully agree with or find it a bit juvenile
Sat Sep 20 15:38:44 UTC 2014 <moriarty> plus i've been unduely influenced by the work of Sokal, Bricmont, i.e. Fashionable Nonsense
Sat Sep 20 15:38:42 UTC 2014 <xmj> moriarty: who stated taleb's black swan before him?
Sat Sep 20 15:38:12 UTC 2014 <moriarty> but i'm an armchair philosopher so what do i know :)
Sat Sep 20 15:37:59 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, i've read works by Lacan and such, and i feel almost as if i have to delve into some metaphysical reality, and not take them at their analogies seriously, especially when they try to use precise notions from mathematics to attempt to build some sort of bridge to their reality
Sat Sep 20 15:37:36 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> moriarty looky, if the conversation were worth following, then 30 years of the finance industry following it would show some benefit for it.
Sat Sep 20 15:37:16 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, i guess i can see why from a philosophical sense, if one has inclinations towards the literal and the objective
Sat Sep 20 15:36:06 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, so i suppose we ought to thank the popularists for at least reminiscing some of the past arguments for the popular public to enjoy a flavour of, and perhaps bring some publicity to what would otherwise be dusty fields relegated to the backshelves of some university library
Sat Sep 20 15:35:34 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, well, i guess it was easier being a popular philosopher or statistician in the past, when one did not have to read countless landmark academic papers in order to keep up with the conversation, as one has to these days
Sat Sep 20 15:34:41 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, i am fully for stupid people not procreating, but i suppose that threatens the sanctity of humanity above the animal kingdom, we seem still unable to fully accept the depedestalisation of homo sapiens
Sat Sep 20 15:33:11 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, how much better are the neoreactionaries aiming for? :P
Sat Sep 20 15:32:36 UTC 2014 <moriarty> there's nothing new in both their works, for the inclined
Sat Sep 20 15:32:23 UTC 2014 <moriarty> a popularist of sorts, amalgamating opinions of the past and attempting to take credit for it
Sat Sep 20 15:32:10 UTC 2014 <moriarty> Ayn Rand is the philosophical equivalent (you would know this better than me), of Nassim Taleb of the statistical world
Sat Sep 20 15:32:10 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> moriarty you're wioth the "it's the protocols of sion v2.0" point of view ?
Sat Sep 20 15:31:34 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, anyone gullible enough to believe the authenticity or originality of Ayn Rand deserves to live in Galt Gulch :P
Sat Sep 20 15:30:48 UTC 2014 <xmj> moriarty: it's funny. i've seen the progression AnCap -> NRx happen a few times
Sat Sep 20 15:29:59 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, lol my fortune was in seven figures, so large enough for me :P
Sat Sep 20 15:29:42 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, correct me if i'm wrong
Sat Sep 20 15:29:38 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, neoreaction from first glance off the internet appears to be one of those anachronistic romanticism :)