Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Looks like the only people who do not think that economists are bullshitters are…"
Looks like the only people who do not think that economists are bullshitters are economists.
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"Beware of economists. They are like doctors who treat the symptoms, not the disease."
"You will never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven."
"The most dangerous people in the world are those who have nothing to lose."
"Prediction is a fool's errand."
"The problem with 'experts' is that they're often optimized for telling a good story, not for accurate prediction."
About Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960)
Lebanese-American probabilist and The Black Swan (2007) author whose work on tail risk and antifragility reshaped finance and policy thinking. Closely associated with Benoit Mandelbrot (fractal mathematician, Taleb's mentor figure). For an intellectual contrast, see Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist and The Better Angels of Our Nature author — Taleb has spent the 2010s publicly attacking Pinker's data-driven 'things are getting better' optimism as naive Gaussian thinking under fat-tailed reality — the loudest public statistics argument of the decade.