Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

My #1 marker for the designation "imbecile": the person conflates NECESSARY & SUFFICIENT: "Math is necessary to undrstnd probability" they counter w/"math doesn't always work". "Experience is necessary to undrstnd finance" they use counterexamples of old pple who made mistakes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lawzinaj In Levantine, qitil becomes nqatal, no? — PolitiTweet.org

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2) E.g. blockchain arguments"it's a NEW technology, denying it is like denying the early internet". They mistake NEW for a sufficient condition. I walked out of a barber shop in Beirut who wanted to use the electric th. in place of scissors when he said "we use cars not horses" — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 5, 2022