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CLASSICISM DUJOUR Friends, looking for an ancient expression ~ mafia’s philosophical “it is what it is” (in The Irishman). In Latin: “dura lex sed lex”, in French: “c’est la vie”, or the great Mutanabbi’s يشتهي البحر ما لا تشتهي السفن Theremustbebetterones My thrust is “you have to live with the fact that variance is bullshit and highly unscientific in economics and financial domains”.
As you get richer, you can feel safer, & don’t give a f**ck of what people think (if you invest safely). As you get more *prominent*, get an academic or political position or some accolade (Nobel prize), you are much more vulnerable as you have much further to fall.
This is what we call pseudo-empiricism. The kind of crap @sapinker and that idiot @michaelshermer promote. See the lexicon for my book https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1212482783416868866?s=20
I feel freer in Lebanon than any other country.
Only Aramaic (Cont) plus the Galilean dialect. He was the son of a carpenter. One thing I’ve learned over a long life: when someone knows French they make sure to make you aware of it. Coptic was never a lingua franca, Latin was only *spoken* in Beirut and Baalbeck (outside the legions) and he might have had a smattering of Greek which was limited to coastal/urban Phoenicia. And if he read the Torah by himself (possible but not likely): Hebrew was NOT spoken anymore. Like Latin in the 19th C.
Peterson, charisma? Peterson, like most psycholophasters, gives the impression of a dithering hypochondriac with an insomnia problem, having serious trouble getting his BS in order, & who regularly implores with endless speeches his girlfriends/partners to not dump him
The best representation of Fat Tony, via Fat Tony Salerno in The Irishman.
The nightmare. I am a philosopher. But an analytic one.
When you encounter Pinker style careerism, remember the following. A book (or a work of scholarship) is something that is read 25 years after publication. What happens in the 25 years doesn’t count. The rest is a combination of noise, promotion, hype & resumé building. #Lindy
