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Fri Aug 22 20:17:52 UTC 2014 <ThickAsThieves> i'm listening to Snow Crash currently, after getting burnt out on Taleb telling everything what it's problem is
Fri Aug 22 19:47:45 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> ben_vulpes: fooled by randomness, being the first, was also the least developed of taleb's trilogy
Fri Aug 22 02:18:56 UTC 2014 <decimation> re: engineering thinking < taleb makes this point, if you want to learn about reality, ask someone who has tried to get things done, not someone who is a bureaucrat
Tue Aug 19 08:32:20 UTC 2014 <xmj> Soon we'll have GMO cannabis on the cheap, all the hipsters and Nassim Taleb will bitch about it
Mon Aug 18 16:06:54 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbGFzOXF5UUN3N2c/edit << taleb on gmo foods and precautionary principle
Tue Aug 12 15:59:40 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> taleb can also be pretty emotional, lashing out on tards at the drop of a hat
Tue Aug 12 15:54:50 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> lol taleb got trolled
Thu Aug 07 16:51:51 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> just like taleb's couscous observation
Fri Aug 01 00:02:24 UTC 2014 <pete_dushenski> contravex, for those who care, is a riff off convex, as in convex payoffs, à la taleb.
Thu Jul 31 01:45:25 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> he recently convinced weev to "go the kickstarter route", with results that still make people lol. << Weev is going to learn the hard way he isn't old enough for Taleb or even Orlov's deference
Sun Jul 27 21:00:50 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> xmj_ taleb sed so, AndrewJackson even has it in his part message.
Sun Jul 27 20:10:52 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: there's very little doubt in my mind that if i were in the sort of situation most folk over there enjoy, i'd simply be shooting people. << and yet taleb survives in nyc just fine << yes, he's not in the sort of situation. he's got teh dough.
Sun Jul 27 18:28:05 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> 'For social mobility to work, it needs to be a two-way highway, with a large number of pre-rich and an almost as large one of post-rich.' -- from the taleb link
Sun Jul 27 18:19:34 UTC 2014 <chetty> persons is often, detectably, the waiter.(Taleb)
Sun Jul 27 15:48:13 UTC 2014 <bitcoinpete> mircea_popescu: there's very little doubt in my mind that if i were in the sort of situation most folk over there enjoy, i'd simply be shooting people. << and yet taleb survives in nyc just fine
Wed Jul 23 15:41:17 UTC 2014 <bitcoinpete> Nassim N. Taleb @nntaleb · 38m Up to 19thC, people in the Levant changed religion to stay in the land. Today they change land to keep religion. (Druzes?Maronites?Shiites) << sounds downright civilized
Mon Jul 21 22:18:01 UTC 2014 <bitcoinpete> via taleb
Thu Jul 17 00:33:51 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> we should have a groan-off. this vs the taleb vid.
Wed Jul 16 20:36:40 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: You don't have to tell houseguests to flush the toilet. I see no reason you would have to tell SB, Taleb, etc. that they should use their brains. (Which is all I got from fluffypony's post)
Wed Jul 16 20:25:11 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> So what we've got so far: There needs to be a list of people that we want here, and reasons why. We don't want them here on any terms and since they're VIP, we should have reasons for each of them. Why NS? Why Taleb specifically?