Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb
Flaneur: probability (philosophy), probability (mathematics), probability (real life), deadlifts & dead languages. GrecoRomanLevantine (Canaan). #RWRI#
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The problem isn’t that AI is intelligent. It isn’t. The problem is that too many adults (but not all) are at once mechanistic, imitative, unimaginative, stupid, formulaic, influenceable, & gullible, arrogant beyond their skill set, & too expensive to maintain.
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Wake up.
Every profession deemed white-collar, the middle class dream, is about to be decimated by AI, at a much faster pace than anticipated, with monstrous social consequences.
This retard Bessent (who unfollowed me) can't hid his Orwellian "stabilize" spin: gas at the pump up ~50% since Trump 2 came to office.
@SecScottBessent, you idiot, who are you bullshitting?
In Italiano: Books are here to survive.
FRANCE 🇫🇷
In Notre Dame, Pope Leo XIV met with the French nun who was assaulted by a Jewish Israeli in Jerusalem
Greeks are naive to believe that Israel will protect them from Turkey (while these Christophobes are destroying Greek Orthodox presence in the Holy Land).
In 1982, Lebanese Christians got dumped by Israel suddenly MID BATTLE switching to side with the Druze.
Ηλίθιοι
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:
Even if you think that Türkiye is about to invade us, do you really think that this strategic alliance with Israel is going to help us militarily?
Do you think, do you ever, ever think that Israel is going to lift its little finger maybe against the Turkish air force if needs be? Under no circumstances.
So we are not gaining anything by siding with a genocidal state, but we're losing a lot because Greece's good name has been dragged through the mud in the United Nations General Assembly.
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The same guy who runs mass GMO monoculture, food supply control, fake meat, sun dimming projects.
Hey @Wayfair - why are you selling this?
Noise tends to grow in a concave way (for a Gaussian, sqrt[t]), signal adds up linearly. So over the long run signal tends to swamp noise.
@nntaleb Nassim, could you please give a small real world example of noise being self-cancelling? I have many and love all of your books (the ones I can understand) but it's always great to get a real example from you for my marshmallow brain!
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My mental model of targeted therapies:
1. Convex dose response (double the dose, get less than double response)
2. Concave resistance onset (cut the dose in half, reduce the resistance by more than half)
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Warning:
Some oleophobic Israeli settler will come pull out this olive tree, just out of spite.
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.
May peace be our future.
William, a 9-year-old Armenian Christian boy, was pepper-sprayed by Israeli Jewish extremists while riding his bike in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur.
He was listening to music when the terrorists approached him menacingly and told him to remove his headphones.
They heard him speaking English, and one of them said "No English, Jews!", and attacked him.
You can hear his mother trying to comfort him, reassuring him that his little sister Arev is okay.
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Interestingly, 6 European countries. This year.
That’s a huge crowd… 77 delegations reportedly walked out when Netanyahu started his speech.
Arab countries 18
Syria
Palestine
Jordan
Lebanon
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Kuwait
Oman
Yemen
Egypt
Sudan
Tunisia
Algeria
Libya
Mauritania
Somalia
Comoros
Asia — 14
Türkiye
Iran
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Indonesia
Malaysia
Brunei
Maldives
Myanmar
North Korea
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Africa — 20
South Africa
Senegal
Djibouti
Angola
Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Liberia
Eritrea
Chad
Central African Republic
Madagascar
Niger
Botswana
Uganda
Lesotho
Eswatini
Equatorial Guinea
Mozambique
Namibia
Kenya
Latin America & Caribbean- 17
Suriname
Panama
Venezuela
Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Barbados
Colombia
Dominica
Nicaragua
Peru
Saint Lucia
Bahamas
Bolivia
Cuba
Guyana
Brazil
Chile
Europe-6
North Macedonia
San Marino
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Spain
Ireland
Pacific-2
Tuvalu
Tonga
Total: 77 delegations.
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While state delegates walk out of Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly, Mitsotakis goes out of his way to meet and hug him. The shame of this. The ignominy. The disgrace. Don’t you dare pretend you represent Greek people Mitsotakis. You represent only your own obscenity.
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"Of course we're conflated"
Neocon David Frum all but confirms he was acting on Israel's behalf when he wrote Bush's notorious "Axis of Evil" speech, plunging the US into a war which killed 1 million Iraqis & left thousands of American soldiers maimed or killed
Very dangerous
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If a country (Zionistan) needs to spend 800 million dollars for an image problem, its problem is not an image problem.
#Fragility#
Actually, come to think about it, academia is populated with wimps & gamma males good at taking tests but crippled with a total absence of imagination.
If you are good at scoring on IQ tests, but not particularly imaginative, AI is in the process of making you obsolete.
Congratulations to @AkbarSAhmed, whose book, CROSSING THE RED LINE, is out today.
Especially as Biden administration officials try to whitewash their reputations, Akbar's detailed reporting provides a vital resource for those who want to hold them accountable.
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If you are good at scoring on IQ tests, but not particularly imaginative, AI is in the process of making you obsolete.
This is how New York Jews are “welcoming” the Prime Minister of a foreign country called Israel.
