>Researchers found that purely rational behavior on the part

Taleb has continuously expressed his admiration for Soros' decision-making ability. Soros has put forward theories that people make decisions on imperfect information. Soros' decisions are less imperfect than most peoples', as seen by his record. Taleb credits this to Soros being a clinical psychopath (aka someone whose amyglada isn't developed enough for them to form emotional attachments whilst having the ability to feel fleeting emotions).

>>1490209
>>1489893
Aren't psychopaths generally more irrational than they try to present themselves?
Ted Bundy ran away from court even though he was sure to be acquitted, which proved his guilt.

>>1490209
Man, Soros makes shitty calls all day long.

He went literally went all in on ONE major bet when he was like 35, and lived his whole life of the success of that one bet with medicore performance ever since.

A few months ago he was calling for a chinese 'hard landing' like it was going to be the collapse of china.

Never fucking happened. Probably lost like 10% of his net wealth on it lmao, but he's stfu about it.

No he isn't smart, clever or a good decision maker. He just bet big at the right time and got lucky enough to win.\

It's turtle theory ya know? Turtles lay like a hundred eggs on the beach. They all crawl towards the water. Like 5 of them make it, and they grow up to be 100 year old turtles.

You don't hear about the literally millions of jews that went all in on a bet and filed for bankruptcy/committed suicide.

>>1489893
Daily reminder that Taleb eats SJW liberals for breakfast.

>>1490216

Psychopathy is a meme. So is basically everything that tries to explain the metaphysical.

Just look at the DSM, new corrections every single year. Sometimes directly contradicting.

It may be useful for classification and on fringe cases treatment. Anything else is a joke.

>>1490261
>psychology is metaphysical
I suppose you're a scientologist?

>>1490266

Psychopathy is an antiquated concept.

Explaining antiquated mental disorders as physical brain deformity is metaphysical. Neuroscience isn't advanced enough to do a proper job.

Do you disagree or something?

>>1490272
>Psychopathy is an antiquated concept.
It's not. It's a common name for antisocial personality disorder, which is a recognized personality disorder.

>Explaining antiquated mental disorders as physical brain deformity is metaphysical.
What?
That's materialism. It's the opposite of metaphysics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Neurological
>Thanks to advancing MRI studies, experts are able to visualize specific brain differences and abnormalities of individuals with psychopathy in areas that control emotions, social interactions, ethics, morality, regret, impulsivity and conscience within the brain. Blair, a researcher who pioneered research into psychopathic tendencies stated, “With regard to psychopathy, we have clear indications regarding why the pathology gives rise to the emotional and behavioral disturbance and important insights into the neural systems implicated in this pathology”.[61]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
>Researchers have linked physical head injuries with antisocial behavior.[40][41][42] Since the 1980s, scientists have associated traumatic brain injury, including damage to the prefrontal cortex, with an inability to make morally and socially acceptable decisions.[40][42] Children with early damage in the prefrontal cortex may never fully develop social or moral reasoning and become "psychopathic individuals ... characterized by high levels of aggression and antisocial behavior performed without guilt or empathy for their victims."[40][41] Additionally, damage to the amygdala may impair the ability of the prefrontal cortex to interpret feedback from the limbic system, which could result in uninhibited signals that manifest in violent and aggressive behavior.[40]

>>1490272
>explaining antiquated mental disorders as physical brain deformity is metaphysical

u fuckin wot m8?
it's mechanistic, not metaphysical at all. I'm starting to think you don't know what metaphysics is.

>>1490295

You are correct good sir, i must be retarded.

>>1490299
unless I misunderstood your meaning in that line.

>>1490281
>>Psychopathy is an antiquated concept.
>It's not. It's a common name for antisocial personality disorder, which is a recognized personality disorder.
You're understanding of the subject is sophomoric. DSM got rid of the word because it was used too broadly to apply to many different sets of symptoms.

>>1489893

Imagine if someone won the lotto and after that used common sense to invest and play the market. Would you try to find the magic formula for his success like what he ate, whether or not he is a psychopath.. yada yada?

Why oh why do you think the stock market requires any skills other than pure luck? The distribution of successes you see around you on the filthy rich, the mediocre and the loosers are the exact same as in a lottety.

i can't believe why some people can be THAT stupid.

>>1492299
>The distribution of successes you see around you on the filthy rich, the mediocre and the loosers are the exact same as in a lottety.
except they tend to correlate closely to IQ.
which is also a sort of lottery, but not exactly the way you're intimating.