“Mr T, I like your work but you call too many pple fraudsters” Me: “There are many fraudsters”
Asides
Just in case you want more example that historians are bullshitters. 2) The mechanism is historian cite historian cite historian, with a weird chain, as Indians say Salma told Sabrina. All over hist of wars.
Actors represents to us on the screen how other citizens are; but they are too fake to be like other citizens. No #skininthegame, all image So not only do actors not look like other citizens, they don’t behave like other citizens & movies misrepresent lives of citizens. All fake! Theater works best when actors wear masks, signifying the actor’s idiosyncracies are supplanted by those of the character. So stage works best when it is set by design to be v. different from life. Not, like Hollywood, trying to make life an imitation of itself.
Every few days, I find myself lamenting U. Eco’s absence. No living figure is that rich: fertile, erudite, playful, charming,& Mediterranean
Another person who doesn’t understand convexity. In other words, don’t cross a river because it is 4 feet deep ON AVERAGE. Gabish? #Antifragile The more people do “data” the less they understand its information.
Population Genetics du Jour: If Armenians/Georgians/Iranians(N)/Anatolians/Kurds look Mediterranean, it’s because Meds originate from there. This holds largely for EastMed and partly for WestMeds.
The skin in the game (symmetry) Q is: Would you like your daughter to appear in Playboy? If so, then do the interview. Otherwise, shut up Playboy. I can proudly say that the Playboy Interview is the first interview I ever declined, when I was invited in 2008. Was told it was the most impactful & most read interview on the planet. Many “serious” authors did it: Nabokov, Mailer, Moravia, Rand… An “interview” in Playboy is the equivalent of putting a prayer room in the middle of a bordello, w/the excuse that it attracts worshippers
What “humble” brag? There is nothing humble about me and I do NOT hide it. Gabish?
Now that the book is done: Writing is 95% walking, 5% sitting. Mathematics is 95% sitting, 5% walking. Copy editors are English majors victims of thought police… One wanted to change “American-style Options” to “U.S.-style” as more PC. The problem of SJW, universalists, globalists, Islamists, neo-atheists, and modernists is that they take everything, every word) literally.
War data are pulled out of the hat. Historians are only reliable for (some) anecdotes. Or as we saw with Mary Beard, good at bu***tting.Practically all data prior to the first war are suspicious. Historians mistake an upper/lower bound for an absolute date. For instance “earliest settlement found” for earliest settlement” 4) Historians have no clue about survivorship bias, so they mistake visible properties for properties. 5) Historians ignore asymmetries. 6) You can do history but one needs to qualify conclusions & exclude some class of statements.
