Re: [silk] The IYIs, according to Taleb

2016-09-19 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 6:17 PM, John Sundman wrote: > And furthermore, Taleb is hypocritical. I mean, what is Taleb if not a > “public intellectual”? What kind of “skin” does he have in the “game”. > That's exactly why I found the article funny. It's like a

Re: [silk] The IYIs, according to Taleb

2016-09-18 Thread Deepak Shenoy
> > > I thought Taleb’s essay was a boring destruction of the flimsiest of straw > men. I agree. Taleb is more focussed on telling us who he thinks are idiots - at least that's what dominates his discourse recently - rather than on constructive things. It's kind of the twitter being - you are

Re: [silk] The IYIs, according to Taleb

2016-09-18 Thread Dave Long
... that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for. If the alternative is to live among

Re: [silk] The IYIs, according to Taleb

2016-09-18 Thread John Sundman
> On Sep 18, 2016, at 5:29 AM, Anish Mohammed wrote: > >> On 18 Sep 2016, at 07:42, Sriram Karra > > wrote: >> >> https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 >>

Re: [silk] The IYIs, according to Taleb

2016-09-18 Thread Anish Mohammed
> On 18 Sep 2016, at 07:42, Sriram Karra wrote: > > https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 > > Found this funny. But just to question the opening statement (for the rest > are mostly his delightful opinions)... are we seeing the 'rebellion" >