Is Nassim Taleb /our guy/?

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> Since his books are bestsellers, I thought as first that the guy was a scam
> Actually read Fooled By Randomness, Black Swan and parts of Skin in the Game - and some twitter rants
> Turns out the guy is fucking based
> First point is that he is versatile, writes (ancients style) about a series of fields (from philosophy to linguistics to finance to medicine to politics etc.) although always with a statistical background and the topic of uncertainty in mind
> He clearly is extremely clever; actually the contemporary author that has impressed me the most so far
> He absolutely destroys political correctness, (((conventional wisdom))) and (((settled science))) at every fucking time; he even seems to love it and has based his personal marketing on that
> To give you an idea, the madman wrote to the Economic "Nobel" Committee (not actually a Nobel Prize) and asked to strip (among others) Merton, Modigliani, Sharpe and Markowitz of their Nobel prize :D ; now if you know finance these guys are a legend and are taught in all B-Schools as (no less) the basis of modern financial theory; like, it's as taboo breaking as holocaust revisionism or 911 skeptics. And he does have very convincing arguments that no ever finance graduate would ever learn from an MBA programme
> Last twitter rant was about Lebanese genetics (Taleb is from the Christian Greek Orthodox minority) to say that they were closest to French due to the crusades or some protohistoric migration
> He is an overt Trump supporter and defends the freedom of speech of evolutionary psychologists / biologists accused of racism
>He brags about dead lifting and shames skinny fats / weak bodied academics all the fucking time
> I don't even understand how the MSM hasn't shut him down yet