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Nassim Taleb is likely wrong about IQ and talent

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Registering a bit of funny before finishing the article "Got rich writing mediocre books"; said the author of a blog that after much striving has reached sub-par.

I assume that dishing out requires taking, re. sneering.

Taleb himself is wholly incapable of taking it, though: he's got the thinnest skin on Twitter and embarrassingly rationalizes his preemptive ego defense as "alpha moves".

You don't have to be Shakespeare to have a valid opinion on whether a piece of writing is good or not, any more than you have to be Gordon Ramsay to have an opinion on food, or be Roger Ebert to say a movie is bad.

This is someone who calls everyone who he disagrees with an idiot or imbecile, even after blocking the person. So it's sneering but only in reciprocation of his own sneering. The books were alright, hence mediocre. Mediocre does not mean bad. The concept of second-order effects of harm long predates those books, yet he's trying to act like he invented the idea.

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