...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: nerd nerds clarity-of-thought modernity modernity-is-a-sickness fragility nerdiness modern-values internet-addiction robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness
I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas, there was no drinking, and mercifully, nobody talked about love.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: academia nerd nerds modernity autism nerdiness
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George
W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.
Tags: wisdom intelligence nerd nerds autism nerdiness iq wisdom-vs-nerds
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: wisdom atheism nerd nerds rationalism empiricism nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds reddit 4chan pitfalls-of-bad-thinking rationalists white-male-privilege white-privilege
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: wisdom art poetry intuition nerd nerds autism details nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds
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