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taleb on our shitlib intellectual class. care to respond, libs?

The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t unde...
pearl spot
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Date: January 21st, 2018 6:28 AM
Author: pearl spot

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.

More socially, the IYI subscribes to The New Yorker. He never curses on twitter. 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.

The IYI has a copy of the first hardback edition of The Black Swan on his shelves, but mistakes absence of evidence for evidence of absence. He believes that GMOs are “science”, that the “technology” is not different from conventional breeding as a result of his readiness to confuse science with scientism.

Typically, the IYI get the first order logic right, but not second-order (or higher) effects making him totally incompetent in complex domains. In the comfort of his suburban home with 2-car garage, he advocated the “removal” of Gadhafi because he was “a dictator”, not realizing that removals have consequences (recall that he has no skin in the game and doesn’t pay for results).

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.

The IYI is member of a club to get traveling privileges; if social scientist he uses statistics without knowing how they are derived (like Steven Pinker and psycholophasters in general); when in the UK, he goes to literary festivals; he drinks red wine with steak (never white); he used to believe that fat was harmful and has now completely reversed; he takes statins because his doctor told him to do so; he fails to understand ergodicity and when explained to him, he forgets about it soon later; he doesn’t use Yiddish words even when talking business; he studies grammar before speaking a language; he has a cousin who worked with someone who knows the Queen; he has never read Frederic Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshot, John Gray, Amianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadiah Gaon, or Joseph De Maistre; he has never gotten drunk with Russians; he never drank to the point when one starts breaking glasses (or, preferably, chairs); he doesn’t even know the difference between Hecate and Hecuba (which in Brooklynese is “can’t tell sh**t from shinola”); he doesn’t know that there is no difference between “pseudointellectual” and “intellectual” in the absence of skin in the game; has mentioned quantum mechanics at least twice in the past five years in conversations that had nothing to do with physics.

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.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3866161&forum_id=2#35201619)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 6:36 AM
Author: Spectacular base

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3866161&forum_id=2#35201623)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 6:40 AM
Author: pearl spot

Post-Post Postscript

(Written after the surprise election of 2016; the chapter above was written several months prior to the event). The election of Trump was so absurd to them and didn’t fit their worldview by such a large margin that they failed to find instructions in their textbook on how to react. It was exactly as on Candid Camera, imagine the characteristic look on someone’s face after they pull a trick on him, and the person is at a loss about how to react.

Or, more interestingly, imagine the looks and reaction of someone who thought he was happily married making an unscheduled return home and hears his wife squealing in bed with a (huge) doorman.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3866161&forum_id=2#35201634)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 6:51 AM
Author: buff abusive home



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3866161&forum_id=2#35201649)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 6:40 AM
Author: curious location dysfunction



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3866161&forum_id=2#35201635)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 9:17 AM
Author: Adulterous internal respiration striped hyena



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3866161&forum_id=2#35201849)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 9:52 AM
Author: Mind-boggling marketing idea newt

"But a much easier marker: he doesn’t even deadlift."

lol 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3866161&forum_id=2#35201961)



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Date: January 21st, 2018 8:12 PM
Author: pearl spot



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Date: January 21st, 2018 10:24 AM
Author: Pea-brained factory reset button



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3866161&forum_id=2#35202044)