The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break, and what won't (2010)

Re:The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break,... by DyslexicAtheist on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:42PM (#23605297)

JBP is absolutely off wrt Post-Modernism. He keeps quoting Hicks' books on Postmodernism which must be dismissed as fraud[1]. (Hicks himself presents his book on white supremacist Stefan Molyeux's podcast[2]).

my problem with JBP is that he presents his ideas as facts but they are nothing more than pseudo science and cherry picking to fit his narrative (e.g. he hasn't really understood the Jungian archetypes and keeps waffling on about it with great confidence). He seems to fit very well into Alan Sokal's definition of the "intellectual imposter". (the irony here is that Sokal himself hasn't understood postmodernism lol)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtvTGaPzF4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkfH87CgKOQ

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Re:The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break,... by ithkuil on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:53AM (#23610050)

Whether Sokal understands postmodernism is besides the point; his hoax was more about a process rather than about an argument

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Re:The World in 2036: Nassim Taleb looks at what will break,... by blaser-waffle on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:44PM (#23619247)

All of those points sound like a "no true scotsman" -- e.g. "he doesn't understand REAL Postmodernism".

All Jungian psychology is pseudoscience; hell most psychology is pseudoscience outside of measurable behaviorist or cognitive approaches.

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