Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "The best way to detect a charlatan is to see how they react to criticism. They w…"
The best way to detect a charlatan is to see how they react to criticism. They will attack the messenger.
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"To be a good philosopher, you need to be a good bullshit detector."
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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.