...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 TalebTag: 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 TalebTag: 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.
Tag: 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 TalebTag: wisdom atheism nerd nerds rationalism empiricism nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds reddit 4chan pitfalls-of-bad-thinking rationalists white-male-privilege white-privilege
English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: arrogance pride elitism racism pride-and-prejudice narcissism bill-o-reilly tea-party-movement egalitarianism blue-collar-snobbery proud-ignorance
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: humor wisdom intelligence art wit nerd nerds autism sense-of-humor wisdom-vs-nerdiness
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom art poetry intuition nerd nerds autism details nerdiness wisdom-vs-nerds
Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette - and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: truth reality-check
Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: inspirational lesson-for-life
Bullish or bearish are terms used by people who do not engage in practicing uncertainty, like the television commentators, or those who have no experience in handling risk. Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens that should be the consideration.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wisdom reality-check financial-markets
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