The Mad Hater
19th August 2019
ZMan looks at Nicholas Taleb.
Taleb is a bit of gasbag and he certainly likes himself a lot. On the other hand, he could simply be a great example of someone with one good insight and not much else. Intellectual history is littered with people who had one great insight and a bunch of crackpot ideas. There were a lot of brilliant physicists in the last century, who were convinced international communism was the future.
Regardless, Taleb is a good reminder that smart people are right about things more often than dumb people, but they are still wrong about a lot of things.