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Fri Nov 07 23:33:47 UTC 2014 <saifedean> well taleb was the reason i went heretical, or the gateway drug at least, i met him and became friend and then went heretic... he liked the heretic version and was happy to be on my committee as the external examiner... but the columbia folks didn't like it so i had to rewrite it and do my Hail USG's, and he still sat onmy committee for that one and helped me defend it from their fangs
Fri Nov 07 23:32:44 UTC 2014 <*> asciilifeform secretly hopes for taleb-minus-the-jackassery
Fri Nov 07 23:30:08 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> saifedean heh cool story. taleb has that effect
Fri Nov 07 23:28:06 UTC 2014 <saifedean> there's a long ass story about how this came about which i may tell to you some day near a fire... i basically started reading taleb in my third year and went off the good Ivy rails... by the end of my fifth i had written an absolutely heretic phd and submit it, and when my adviser finally got round to reading it, the day before the defense, she decided it wasn't acceptable and wasn't going to let me defend it
Fri Nov 07 23:17:35 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> wait. isn't taleb from lebanon ?
Tue Nov 04 22:06:36 UTC 2014 <johntraveller> asciilifeform: oh yeah, you’re right. my theory was that people like MP or taleb, who grew up in somewhat sane cultures, instinctively see the craziness of anglo-american ideas. if you grew up in the english speaking world it’s harder to see that
Tue Oct 28 02:37:45 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> mats_cd03 as in, didn't understand taleb's point ? or as in what ?
Tue Oct 28 02:37:06 UTC 2014 <mats_cd03> http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/10/27/1716243/black-swan-author-genetically-modified-organisms-risk-global-ruin << anybody else read this and think taleb is way off base?
Wed Oct 22 07:19:31 UTC 2014 <ben_vulpes> taleb's really on to something with his noise suppression routine.
Tue Oct 21 04:36:51 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> a la taleb
Tue Oct 14 00:31:50 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> Taleb could probably get an article in without 6 months reading.
Fri Oct 10 16:11:14 UTC 2014 <ben_vulpes> i'm trying the taleb approach to noise reduction
Fri Oct 10 04:06:32 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> i can't picture what taleb (or for that matter herr sz) would get out of my turds
Fri Oct 10 04:05:53 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: The list of targets, irc is Nick Szabo, Nicholas Taleb.
Tue Sep 30 20:25:59 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> mats_cd03: depends on hypothetical destination. but, overall, just picture a figure large enough to 'become taleb' and live as 'gentleman scholar' in total disconnect from economic reality around you.
Wed Sep 24 18:11:26 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> the local bureaucrats did not believe that he used the remaining year to relax in his library, carry on as polymathic scholar unencumered by day job (a la taleb)
Sat Sep 20 15:38:42 UTC 2014 <xmj> moriarty: who stated taleb's black swan before him?
Sat Sep 20 15:38:31 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> and the argument that taleb is "popularizing" brought by butthurt but otherwise worthless "statisticians" in their own estimation neatly mirrors the same criticism brought by "economists" in their own estimation re buffett.
Sat Sep 20 15:32:23 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> i happen to be a taleb fan actually
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