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Intellectual Yet Idiot
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:13 pm
The memetic manifestation of a great concept...
TL:DR - Read it all, you will enjoy
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sep 16, 2016
The Intellectual Yet Idiot
(Chapter in Skin in the game )
PS:
We don’t need no thoughts controlled...
TL:DR - Read it all, you will enjoy
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sep 16, 2016
The Intellectual Yet Idiot
(Chapter in Skin in the game )
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What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligentsia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence hence fall into circularities?—?but their main skill is capacity to pass exams written by people like them. With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3 of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
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Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats who feel entitled to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their image-oriented minds scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they would classify as “rational” or “irrational” (or some such categories indicating deviation from a desired or prescribed protocol) comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.) They are also prone to mistake the ensemble for the linear aggregation of its components as we saw in the chapter extending the minority rule.
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The Intellectual Yet Idiot is a production of modernity hence has been accelerating since the mid twentieth century, to reach its local supremum today, along with the broad category of people without skin-in-the-game who have been invading many walks of life. Why? Simply, in most countries, the government’s role is between five and ten times what it was a century ago (expressed in percentage of GDP). The IYI seems ubiquitous in our lives but is still a small minority and is rarely seen outside specialized outlets, think tanks, the media, and universities?—?most people have proper jobs and there are not many openings for the IYI. Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. He fails to naturally detect sophistry. The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are “red necks” or English non-crisp-vowel class who voted for Brexit. When plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducated”. What we generally call participation in the political process, he calls by two distinct designations: “democracy” when it fits the IYI, and “populism” when the plebeians dare voting in a way that contradicts his preferences. While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote, with some equivalence for foreign elite schools and PhDs as these are needed in the club.
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He speaks of “equality of races” and “economic equality” but never went out drinking with a minority cab driver (again, no real skin in the game as the concept is foreign to the IYI). Those in the U.K. have been taken for a ride by Tony Blair. The modern IYI has attended more than one TEDx talks in person or watched more than two TED talks on Youtube. Not only did he vote for Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison because she seems electable and some such circular reasoning, but holds that anyone who doesn’t do so is mentally ill.
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The IYI has been wrong, historically, on Stalinism, Maoism, GMOs, Iraq, Libya, Syria, lobotomies, urban planning, low carbohydrate diets, gym machines, behaviorism, transfats, freudianism, portfolio theory, linear regression, Gaussianism, Salafism, dynamic stochastic equilibrium modeling, housing projects, selfish gene, election forecasting models, Bernie Madoff (pre-blowup) and p-values. But he is convinced that his current position is right.
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He knows at any point in time what his words or actions are doing to his reputation. But a much easier marker: he doesn’t even deadlift.
PS:
We don’t need no thoughts controlled...
This post was edited on 6/17/20 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:21 pm to ThinePreparedAni
How about some cliffs, nerd
Posted on 10/16/18 at 9:14 pm to LouBega
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What's npc mean
NPC stands for "non-playable character". It's a term for video game characters that exist purely to make the game seem more populated, but cannot do anything more than repeat the same 1 or 2 phrases over and over again. The meme suggests that most protesters and internet SJWs you see are either: (A) programmed bot accounts which can only respond with a short list of talking points, (B) paid activists who have no idea what they are talking about,or (C) people who are so brainwashed and incapable of critical thought that they're completely indistinguishable from the above. Either way, they're not worth clicking on.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 9:30 pm to ThinePreparedAni
I really liked the black swan and the way taleb thinks, generally, however, after following him on twitter and reading that article (last year) he comes across as a man very much in love with himself and jealous of anyone who gains attention over him. I can just about name every individual he’s mad at by the list of what his iyis have gotten wrong historically. Really smart dude with interesting ideas but his bittterness is completely transparent.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 8:08 pm to ThinePreparedAni
Bumped because these idiots are irritating and need to be called out
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:45 am to ThinePreparedAni
I love this board. Serious next level discussion is happening here. It’s amazing to watch the transition in thought over the years.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 9:50 am to ThinePreparedAni
These are the people who wear glasses, therefore we should yield to their expertise. See Richard Maddow and Anderson Cooper for examples.
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