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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by lqet on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:10AM (#20837216)
I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before. He is quite controversial, but often deeply original and almost never boring. You should read "Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder" which imho is his best book. "Black Swan" is more well-known, but I was a slightly disappointed by it.
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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by dustinmoris on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:18AM (#20837239)
> I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before. He is quite controversial, but often deeply original and almost never boring.

Yeah, probably fault due to my own ignorance/bubble in which I live. But I like reading controversial but cleverly put together essays. I like it when someone challenges my own views with a well thought through argument, because that is the best way to either learn something new, or at least learn to understand other people better. So either way I feel like I always walk away as a winner whether I agree or disagree in the end. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by coldtea on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:26AM (#20837278)
>But I like reading controversial but cleverly put together essays. I like it when someone challenges my own views with a well thought through argument,

Try Chesterton then. A little old but still relevant. E.g. could try Heretics.

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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by kthejoker2 on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:35AM (#20838432)
Or Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell.

Or almost anything by Orwell; his crankiness knows no limits.

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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by amelius on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:59AM (#20837428)
Black Swan was just a simple analogy that the author decided to write an entire book about.
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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by mieseratte on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:15AM (#20837234)
> I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before.

He's just one of today's "Lucky 10.000"[0]

[0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by huffmsa on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:19AM (#20837245)
Seinfeld effect RE: Black swan. The ideas have become pretty common place (though most uses of the phrase in the mainstream are incorrect) so they don't seem novel ~15 years later.

And his writing has improved.

Skin in the Game is the example heavy companion/ follow up to the more technical antifragile.

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