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A comment on Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb.

Re:Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb by sremani on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:10AM (#11729862)
I thoroughly enjoyed his other book, "Anti-Fragile" and even more enjoy his twitter feed. He may be low on humility factor, but him calling out BS is refreshing, esp. the self-proclaimed vanguards of science whose work in science is filled with holes and/or is sparse.

Read some of the preview chapters, posted here and twitter feed. Fits very well with his writing style and over all theme. I look forward to read this book.

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Re:Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb by VodkaHaze on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:25AM (#11729975)
For someone calling out vanguards of science, he's light on science himself. He pulled all his "theories" out of his ass, with no empirical support or mathematical deduction.

Fooled by randomness was nice and all, and Black Swan was OK (if you can read past his arrogance), but now he considers himself a "public intellectual", and treats himself as the class of a Nobel winner when he has no more credentials than any other random day trader

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Re:Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb by anton1989 on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:43AM (#11730090)
Probability theory is the queen of science
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Re:Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb by vas123 on Thursday May 19, 2016 @09:38AM (#11730064)
well then, tell us how you truly feel...
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Re:Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb by henrik_w on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:00AM (#11730212)
I agree on both points. I really enjoyed reading Antifragile, lots of good concepts and ideas! But his Twitter feed is pretty depressing to read - lots of attacking back and forth.
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Re:Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb by cholantesh on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:23AM (#11730902)
His Twitter feed reveals him to be less antifragile and more infantile.
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Re:Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb by acqq on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:35AM (#11730511)
> his Twitter feed is pretty depressing to read

Em, aren't they all, unless they are the kind of "the shit my dad says," that is, intentional jokes?

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