Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@geoffreydgraham The other point you must agree is that the Larger State must not impose rules on smaller states, down to local communities. And businesses must be free to discriminate according to risks by clients. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Jed_Trott @normonics @JamesMarsh79 @stan_yurin @jaffer_ali1 There are other distinctions that make things easy: public vs private, local vs regional, etc. I believe that vaccines must be voluntary; but also that if a restaurant (private entity) requires you to wear pink shoes, it's their right. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@geoffreydgraham This is a different principle and a more complicated intergenerational silver rule. On that, later. Basically the point is that libertarians must agree that freedom is reciprocal. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@JamesMarsh79 @normonics @stan_yurin @jaffer_ali1 We seem to be debating modalities and degrees, not the principles here. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

RT @black_swan_man: In order to be cost-effective, a safe haven needs maximal crash-bang-for-the-buck. (From 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯) #blackswanman #th… — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@jaffer_ali1 @JamesMarsh79 Not the point. You may disagree with the mechanisms of spreading; it is about freedom without responsibility and symmetry to others. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Firsou @Belenos70535832 This is not a policy discussion (as you know it is too complicated because of specificity of details, where you draw the line, etc.). It's a discussion about ETHICS and Symmetry. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@normonics My discussion is not about policymaking but ethics and consistency. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@normonics Addiction is a long discussion and smokers pay more as you know... And ceased to inflict direct health risks for others. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@saarwilf Yes, that is the inverse CDF. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

5) To summarize. Doctors must abide by the Hyppocratic oath to "do not harm". Liberarians must ALSO abide by their own principle to "do not harm" before asking for freedom. Life is about symmetry. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Mehdi_IR_DC Must require symmetry, under scaling. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Firsou @Belenos70535832 You still don't see the inconsistency of requiring doctors to subscribe to an oath, but libertarians to not subscribe to their own Hyppocratic one and commit voluntary harm? — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

4) No,this is NOT abt Triage. The entire argument is that (pseudo) libertarians do not want the argument of freedom to also apply to health workers. If you want health workers to be *obligated* into curing you,then you TOO have social obligations to not actively spread disease. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Firsou @Belenos70535832 Then why are you constraining the FREEDOM of hospital workers? — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

3) For idiots not getting it, an obese person is only harming herself or himself. Someone who wants to spread Covid is actively harming others, and so in a multiplicative way. Libertarianism is FIRST about non-aggression. #Scaling — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

RT @dsquareddigest: Absolutely every statement of classical liberalism (all the ones that are worth anything) has a little paragraph tucked… — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Firsou Theory vs Practice. Find me an obese person who enjoys being obese and doesn't want to be thinner. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@dhavalpanchal They are perpetrators not just victims. Others are victims. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Firsou No. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2) Freedom must come with consequences and reciprocity. [Being smoker/obese or having a risk factor is not in your control and is not MULTIPLICATIVE. Asking for freedom to SPREAD Covid is something different.] — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Firsou Not the same. Being obese is not in your control and is not MULTIPLICATIVE. Asking for freedom to SPREAD Covid is something different. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

I am all for freedom. But then hospital staff MUST also have the freedom to treat you last, give priority of resources to people who promote safety for themselves and others, no? Freedom! [Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19] — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

I am all for freedom. But then hospital staff MUST also have the freedom to treat you last, give priority of resources to people who promote safety for themselves and others, no? Freedom! [Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19] — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@ofer_rubin Nature is less cruel than in reports. Most animals are collaborative. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@NamitaGokhale_ Congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@mathtick Yes thanks for existing. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@mikeandallie Sorry I mean the left is the inverse function of the right — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

PROBABILITY TUTORIAL This friend of mine, a #cardiac surgeon had a 0% mortality for n=60 in a field with ~.05 on average. Here is the very simplified analysis. Use inverse functions. https://t.co/uw7LpIO71d — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

RT @KishavanBhola: I’ve seen probably every @nntaleb interview and presentation and Wolfram’s 3.5-hour chat was by far the most interesting… — PolitiTweet.org