I don't recall Taleb calling others idiots much in his book.

I do recall Taleb admiring himself, though. A lot.

He’s just a pathological narcissist that functionally aliterate traders think is a philosopher.

His books are mostly unoriginal fluff that could be expressed in a few pages.

This seems transparently ridiculous coming from someone as famously thin-skinned and pugnacious as Taleb.

I wonder if there is maybe some other, easier, way of checking if someone's an idiot.

His reply to his own tweet is hilarious. He's playing chess whilst we're all playing checkers