I don't understand well that remark, but maybe is it relative to the usual remarks people do today "too good to be true".
Taleb explain that the concept of "sour grape" is just for people having no chance to get far from home, to imagine that anything far is bad. In fact he claims there are sweet grape, and that you just have to avoid eating the sour grapes. (optionality). today we have so much lost our capacity to innovate, because of "administrated science", and that many people imagine that anything new is evil, anything unexpected is dangerous. post modernism... a mix between human egocentrism, megalomania, fear of change and depression. 2013/6/8 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> > Kitamura wrote: > > >> From the introduction : Recently, we find a few grandstanding activities >> based apparently on commercial purposes on various internet sites. > > > Sour grapes. > > - Jed > >
