Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

  • David GerardMA
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    1710 months ago

    yes, way too much of it is. Taleb is extremely smart, but nobody is as smart as Taleb thinks he is.

    • @zogwarg
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      10 months ago

      I think the most bitter part is him taking pride in his “real life” intelligence and his condemnation of test takers as “lifeless bureaucrats who can muster sterile motivation”. There is a callous hubris there, I suspect fueled by resentment of past interactions with quacks and/or holier than thou academics, the remedy isn’t becoming holier than thou in turn.

      Sneering is fun/cathartic, othering less so.

      NOTE: As a mindless drone pencil pusher myself, prone to to investigate things that don’t clearly matter immediately to the “real world”; I might be a tad defensive here ^^.

    • Piers Cawley
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      710 months ago

      @dgerard or as insufferable. I couldn’t get more than half a chapter into Black Swan because his writing style was so damned offputting.

    • @sc_griffith
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      510 months ago

      Unfortunately he is an atrocious narcissist

    • PhilOP
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      410 months ago

      High-end stats is kind of Taleb’s thing, so he gets to be as insufferable as he likes dunking on IQiots imo.

      • fnix
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        410 months ago

        @pja @dgerard Taleb’s like that with just about anyone he dislikes for whatever reason tho, so it’s not just about high-end stats or the caliper-curious.