With a couple errors in the first paragraph and about three times too long. I don't mind Taleb's idiosyncratic writing style, but unless it is a very short passage it doesn't really work outside of a complete work, too many weird neologisms and references to his own archetypes e.g. "Fat Tony". Especially in this quote, repeatedly referring to some other part of the book about tonsillectomies.
This past week I saw a post somewhere about the chap who built a simulation of a computer inside Terraria. It was written as a Medium post and had the link to the guy's video at the end, about 15 lines in all.
Shameful what some people do to appropriate content from better creators, really. We don't need generative AI to ruin the Internet, we're perfectly capable of producing organic garbage.
I read it and it makes a logically consistent argument. One may or may not agree, but personally it resonates with experience so it was interesting to see it put in words.
It's incredibly low effort. It's mostly just quotes from Taleb, with no value added. And Taleb is extremely problematic and non-rigorous. Taleb is a personification of Knoll's law of media accuracy, “everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge”.
