Nassim Taleb on What Bitcoiners, Anti-Vaxxers and Deadlift Maxis All Get Wrong | Odd Lots

Nassim Taleb has never been shy about expressing his viewpoints on a wide range of topics. But lately he's been getting into verbal tussles with people who have long looked up to his wisdom. Whether it's Bitcoiners, venture capitalists, deadlifters, or anti-vaxxers, many people within these communities have admired his philosophy of antifragility. So why has he taken to arguing with them on Twitter? What exactly are they getting wrong about his ideas? And for that matter, why has he himself gotten into cycling lately? In this wide ranging conversation, the author of books such as Antifragile, The Black Swan, and Fooled by Randomness talks about all these topics and more - including how to think about reducing tail risk in one's own life.
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[@BAsed_AFro]

"If you have to be persuaded, reminded pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized... if all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance, you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest." - Ian Watson

[@neophantom.]

real talk!

[@michaelferrigno2495]

hard to understand what nassim is saying. is there a transcript available?

[@HubertHeller]

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[@nunoalexandre6408]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!

[@madelaine8531]

the root of everything is the government spending too much money to appease the people who donated to their campaigns. The central banks do deserve blame but not 100% of the blame. low interest rates needed due to all the debt.

[@george6977]

Taleb said a normalisation in interest rates to 4-6%, indeed a discount rate > 3%, would hit stocks as they are overpriced. Why didn’t you ask about potential safe havens?

[@robertdale001]

excellent

[@edreeves121]

Excellent discussion and informative interview. 👍

[@da-be-ju]

Awful sound quality.

[@BAsed_AFro]

I've heard from countless individuals that regret getting the jabs, who stopped getting more. And I've talked to hundreds that have had zero, and not even one regrets their decision. ☝All that I need to know!

[@ThePainkiller9995]

and my dad is the CEO of playstation

[@BAsed_AFro]

​@@ThePainkiller9995 Keep telling yourself whatever makes you feel good about the drugs that you now have in your body, and be sure to enjoy whatever it is that you believe you get out of having them. In the meantime, those of us that won't be participating are all doing just fine with no regrets. 😘

[@celvermeulen6112]

I've had the same experience!

[@marciasandberg4513]

So you navigate through your life by way of bias confirmation 😂 ok Einstein 😂😂😂

[@balloonredd373]

Funny how, i was just thinking about an interview with Nassim, and this just got uploaded. What a coincidink

[@ahhsugoi]

I wonder what Taleb thinks of himself.

[@wegder]

Very few people are going to be content with 10% gains per year when crypto can deliver 100%- 1000% per year. I'm sure there are good venture capitalists but I think of venture capitalists as being worse than fentanyl dealers.

[@peteringeri8274]

This is so bad I’ve never heard someone so sure of themselves

[@Yahweh42069]

taleb just rambles incoherently and seems far too arrogant to be a good source of information

[@rogersiemund8236]

Unfortunatly he hasn’t understad a bit of the problems with massvacination outside the risk groups and the total lack of effect of masks (there is even a Cochraine-study showing it). Sad to here …

[@da-be-ju]

Cochraine study is problematic because of its selectivity of studies (excluding studies that show mask efficacy) and because of its political leanings (conservatives who have been anti-mask from the start). What is said is the nonsensical anti mask sentiment.

[@Yahweh42069]

@@da-be-ju wait until you see how problematic the vaccine studies were