The phrase "doesn't blindly accept x" usually has an implication that the subject is aware of x, so you seem to be totally avoiding the argument being made that Taleb seems unaware of work done on the topics he writes about.
You are begging the question. I posit that he is aware of it and is presenting it differently than others.
The disagreement is whether he understands A. The issue and B. What others said. The whole of acadamia is full of different perspectives / why not here from Taleb?
> You are begging the question. I posit that he is aware of it and is presenting it differently than others.
Flatly stating that an entire field of inquiry has, up to the point at which you are publishing your commentary, failed to recognize and consider the ramifications of a phenomenon on which effect and it's ramifications numerous papers have been published in the field for several decades is not being aware of the factual circumstances and presenting them differently than others. Its either ignorance or dishonesty.
And when you compound that by using the mythical failure as a jumping off point for an explanation (“skin in the game”) for the systematic incompetence that seems necessary to explain how the field could fail to address the phenomenon, this compounds the problem.
