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Re:Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf] by mercy_dude on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @12:52PM (#29727453)
I used to respect Nassim a lot, and I still do. He was the one who opened my eyes to tail risks, fragility among a host of other things. His books Skin in the Games and Antifragility were one of the books that had a very large impact on my late twenties.

But lately something happened to him. He has adopted a “Twitter persona” where all he talks about is anti vaccine, anti Bitcoin and sometimes on rare occasions Mediterranean architecture. It is a bit disappointing especially sometimes he starts picking random people in Twitter and borderline bullying them. I don’t know how much weight I can put to his work anymore.

Re:Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf] by MrMan on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:07PM (#29728634)
luckily we have statistics textbooks we dont need twitter celebrities to teach about probability.
Re:Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf] by jonemi on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:10PM (#29727689)
I think you mean he complains about anti-vaccine rhetoric? Because he's very pro-vaccine: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Anntaleb%20vaccine