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@nntaleb Avatar @nntaleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb posts on X about if you, swan, i am, science the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and 2499 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"Phoenicians simply were not settler colonialists. Same with the Greeks. Same (don't get upset) with the Turks. Same with the Arabs. They exported their language and culture not their population"
X Link 2025-04-27T13:50Z 1.1M followers, 485.2K engagements

"Finally they are strting to get it"
X Link 2025-11-16T14:16Z 1.1M followers, 579.7K engagements

"Friends happy Thanksgiving This is the day to express gratitude. This is also the day to ponder the wisdom that what is a Black Swan surprise for the turkey can be a White Swan certainty for the butcher. So just don't be the turkey and it's all going to be OK"
X Link 2025-11-27T18:07Z 1.1M followers, 111.7K engagements

"When you dig you realize that Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy are practically the same; apostolic with very minor political differences"
X Link 2025-11-28T19:21Z 1.1M followers, 144.3K engagements

"This is a perfect illustration of the supposed Catholic "subsidiarity" manifested best in Orthodoxy where bishops are XXX% independent. For instance Elias Audi the current Greek Orthodox bishop of Beirut has had a long a rift with the nominal "superior" Ioannis X the Patriarch of Antioch who was unable to remove him & access its funds"
X Link 2025-11-30T12:16Z 1.1M followers, 110.6K engagements

"New paper coming"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:01Z 1.1M followers, 1.6M engagements

"This cyclist friend of mine who asks me to post on X* (he is shy) has reported that the husband of the first wife of his home builder's divorce lawyer said that his stepson's accountant loves Waymo while cycling as it appears to respect bicyclists. -- *Formerly known as Twitter"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:47Z 1.1M followers, 63K engagements

"A lot of imbeciles commenting. I am not saying use or don't use stops. I am revealing the transformation of the properties of the strategy stemming from a stop. Idiots"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 46.7K engagements

"Soon I will no longer need to correct stuff. @Grok is more coherent than humans now correctly representing my ideas (as they did with those of Mark Spitznagel); same with Grokipedia. It understood the perpetual mining fragility argument"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:43Z 1.1M followers, 119.3K engagements

"I'd rather have governance without democracy than democracy without governance"
X Link 2025-11-30T10:35Z 1.1M followers, 102.8K engagements

"Friends for comments A paper on the hidden optionality in American Options. A practical heuristic approach"
X Link 2025-11-30T14:23Z 1.1M followers, 55.6K engagements

"Waymo respects cyclists & pedestrians doesn't tweet & drive (or worse engage in Twitter fights while driving) rarely has road rage & pulls a gun doesn't blow its horn one nanosecond after the light turns green doesn't drink doesn't play loud music with the window open"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:28Z 1.1M followers, 23.7K engagements

"One of those clueless people misinterpreting my work and using it for confirmation"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:42Z 1.1M followers, 172.1K engagements

"Seems to me that self-employed & independent people tend to not like to work under personal trainers telling them precisely what to do. Is this observation correct"
X Link 2025-12-07T16:17Z 1.1M followers, 182.8K engagements

"This cyclist friend of mine who asks me to post on X on his behalf (he is shy) got a call from the lover of the now married ex-mistress of his dermatologist to let him know that he is going to vote against Trump at the midterm elections. He will also take Tylenol next accident"
X Link 2025-09-25T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 62.6K engagements

"For a continuous distribution every "point" on the real line has a measure 0; even more so for rationals"
X Link 2025-11-27T22:47Z 1.1M followers, 165.3K engagements

"The statement below has in fact ZERO practical significance is Bourbaki-style French mathematical mas****tion. Why For a continuous probability in theory the pr of someone being exactly 1.78m tall (the mean) is X. This assumes a ruler with INFINITE PRECISION. In real life (& science) our precision is NECESSARILY limited by the tools (or there are Plank-like lower bounds). Say 10-4: then we are dealing w/closed intervals XXXXXX 11850 all of which have measure =0"
X Link 2025-11-28T11:32Z 1.1M followers, 117K engagements

"(The above post appears to be an excellent bait to eliminate sophistry-prone thread polluter)"
X Link 2025-11-30T11:07Z 1.1M followers, 11K engagements

"Governance by definition is not gamed. What we call democracy is a nominal voting system that get gamed by lobbyists"
X Link 2025-11-30T11:09Z 1.1M followers, 16.9K engagements

"This #cyclist friend of mine who has been training very steadily just let me know that a VO2 max of XX is no longer an impossibility"
X Link 2023-06-22T15:35Z 1.1M followers, 153.8K engagements

"TRUE WEALTH (3rd Ed) Worriless sleeping Clear conscience Reciprocal gratitude Genuine sense you did your duty toward the Palestinians & other victims Absence of envy Foamy coffee Crusty bread Trustworthy friends & inexperienced enemies Frequent smiles No meals alone Nice clothes in evening (& Sunday lunch) No friends w/hypochondria No gym classes Gravel bicycling Good digestive functions No Zoom "meetings" No chronic medication Periodic surprises Nothing to hide: financial and fiscal tranquility Muscular strength & endurance Ability to nap Access to a hammock"
X Link 2025-10-18T20:50Z 1.1M followers, 321.5K engagements

"I am still hearing that Bitcoin is a hedge against uncertainty"
X Link 2025-11-21T15:54Z 1.1M followers, 211.5K engagements

"CARDIOLOGY DUJOUR Fitting a lognormal curve to a week of cycling in a moderately hilly terrain total XXX minutes (14 h). You get your "Zone 2" your Norwegian X x X and all other marketed pseudocategories all in one naturally without even noticing that you are exercising"
X Link 2025-11-24T13:48Z 1.1M followers, 61.7K engagements

"BLOCKING My working hypothesis is that a tiny minority of trolls accounts for the bulk of the degradation in discourseconsistent with a power-law distribution. This appears to be supported by the observation that I must block progressively fewer individuals"
X Link 2025-11-30T15:16Z 1.1M followers, 66.9K engagements

"She is a monster"
X Link 2025-12-02T18:06Z 1.1M followers, 260.4K engagements

"Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison must constantly maintain her allegiances lest her past be erased -- which is why we need high political turnover"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:48Z 1.1M followers, 70.6K engagements

"People don't realize the financial mistake (started with Biden): if you are under sanctions then your accounts in the USD & satellites system can be frozen (incl. Sw.). The fear of such arbitrary sanctions is what is driving GOLD to become the world currency for safe storage"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:24Z 1.1M followers, 174.2K engagements

"Turns out Monsanto ghostwriters were behind a safety paper on glyphosate. Main doc supporting Monsanto now retracted 10y ago same shills tried a smear campaign @kevinfolta @dropeik @mark_lynas @TamarHaspel @keithkloor @henryimiller John Entine @GeneticLiteracy Yvette d'Entremont @TheSciBabe That idiot @PTetlock @ramez Val Giddings @prometheusgreen"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:41Z 1.1M followers, 55.6K engagements

"Ignoooooooooooorant. The Christian holy sites were preserved & protected by Muslim rulers for XX C before the Israeli 1967 invasion --Islam (unlike Judaism) recognizes Jesus as a prophet. Since Saladin the keys to the Holy Sepulcre are in the hands of a Muslim family because of the disagreements betw. numerous Christian factions"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:58Z 1.1M followers, 151.2K engagements

"I feel shielded. Ideas are fragile to distortions & motivated bad faith players. For instance a math-ignorant economist & failed trader Eric Falkenstein spent XX years compulsively strawmanning my ideas on fat tails (& uncertainty) & economists took his version seriously"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:12Z 1.1M followers, 72.5K engagements

"You can IMMEDIATELY tell someone is a Monsanto (now Bayer) shill"
X Link 2025-12-06T13:53Z 1.1M followers, 101.3K engagements

"Sam Harris was NEVER a respected neuroscientist. He has no contribution and was considered a science journalist"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:56Z 1.1M followers, 302.8K engagements

"The strategy of unjustifiably accusing someone of "antisemitism" is to precisely bring a denial "I am not." the worst possible response. The best response: "You mean principled humanist: compassionate values justice & fairness refuses injustice & harm part. for children""
X Link 2025-12-07T13:14Z 1.1M followers, 79.4K engagements

"YUUUGE paper. While for athletes Z1-Z2 may be beneficial (they saturate high intensity) for vanilla citizens v. high intensity is beneficial X min Z3+ X min of Z2 up to X for T2 diabetes. The methodology is superior because they use accelerometers not self-reporting. 1/n"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:43Z 1.1M followers, 301.1K engagements

"@thecaffeineguy Not at all"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:55Z 1.1M followers, 9800 engagements

"To repeat: Israel's population REPLACEMENT project is rare in history purely a Northern European thing (the mythological claim of "purging" the land of Canaan is false). Romans Persians Arabs Turks Spanish Portuguese: they invaded culturally; they did not expel locals"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:26Z 1.1M followers, 181.5K engagements

"GROK is the best referee I've ever had. Comments on the paper with @DrCirillo"
X Link 2025-11-24T20:47Z 1.1M followers, 69.8K engagements

"The problem is that once the taboo of criticizing Israel falls then more historical events will be revealed; more scrutiny will ensue; the whole thing gets out of control"
X Link 2025-12-01T16:55Z 1.1M followers, 188.8K engagements

"Dear enemiesThe Black Swan is now the most influential (that is discussed/mentioned) 21st C book. While almost all books have a half-life between X and X months it does not appear to have a half-life. #Lindy Same with other X books in the Incerto. Graph is US only"
X Link 2024-07-30T15:39Z 1.1M followers, 6.5M engagements

"I met PM Modi several times w/the same discussion: What India needs is make failure honorable; smart people tend to go to prestigious employment in a bureaucratic system instead of building startups. He said that in Gujarat people who failed wore a literal badge of honor"
X Link 2024-12-29T12:18Z 1.1M followers, 400.9K engagements

"All rumors are false until officially denied"
X Link 2025-09-28T17:38Z 1.1M followers, 517K engagements

"My most important paper ever: How uncertainty (errors on errors) fattens the tails. Connects to all epistemological traditions. w/@DrCirillo Pages 1-4"
X Link 2025-10-03T11:38Z 1.1M followers, 369.7K engagements

"One thing I learned from experience is that those who do solidly well in life never practically never do anything in bad faith. Reduce bad faith from say that tiny X% bit to X% and see how it works wonders. Simple advice @__paleologo"
X Link 2025-11-25T01:15Z 1.1M followers, 383.7K engagements

"Pope in Lebanon rare No here are the Levantine/Syro-Phoenician popes: Pope Evaristus (c. 97105) PP Anicetus (157168) PP John V (685686) PP Sergius I (687701) PP Sisinnius (708) PP Constantine (708715) PP Gregory III (731741) last non-Italian/Spanish till recent"
X Link 2025-11-30T18:50Z 1.1M followers, 82.4K engagements

"Something funny is happening in the discourse with the inversion of terms. This is (largely) the list of brave HUMANISTS human right activists and compassionate people who stand against children murder dispossession Apartheid ethnic cleaning genocide etc"
X Link 2025-12-01T13:58Z 1.1M followers, 117.8K engagements

"Pray in Latin or better yet in (katharevousa) Greek. Holy languages are not spoken; spoken languages are not holy. (in my next book)"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:09Z 1.1M followers, 166.5K engagements

"Testing reveals speed not depth. Real life is about depth. RIP Jim Simons"
X Link 2025-11-14T11:27Z 1.1M followers, 678.9K engagements

"I believe this paper addresses even solves the most relevant statistical problem of the century including the replication crisis & the fake results in publication. I kept it concentrated Russian probability style just meat unlike the looping social science "contributions""
X Link 2025-11-15T18:30Z 1.1M followers, 329.4K engagements

"If you feel that you are in competition with anyone for anything you are a loser"
X Link 2025-11-20T11:39Z 1.1M followers, 450.5K engagements

"Deriving pride from comparative accomplishments (cont. measuring oneself by relative position) is usually the mark of someone weak inept & insecure. But boasting a second-hand vicarious pride from the accomplishments of ones nation or tribe is the mark of a pure loser. --- Exception: counterpride as a response when some vicarious prider puts you & your tribe down"
X Link 2025-11-28T13:11Z 1.1M followers, 101.2K engagements

"In modern times slaughter colonianism is not sustainable"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:24Z 1.1M followers, 59.9K engagements

"Paper accepted in RISKS. Link to come. The paper isn't technically difficult but has large consequences in forecasting: even if you forecast in the Gaussian domain the future has thicker tails than the Gaussian"
X Link 2025-12-03T14:14Z 1.1M followers, 91.5K engagements

"FINALLY AI is killing academic games in finance & economics academics who play the system writing papers that have no meaning other than academic standing"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:00Z 1.1M followers, 308.2K engagements

"2/ HILARIOUS: LLM even identifies "No BS ranking". Note that medicine is a field where practice is lined up to journal prestige"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:07Z 1.1M followers, 30.2K engagements

"Nice illustration of Jensen's inequality: the average km-h is not the inverse of the average hours per km"
X Link 2025-12-04T15:08Z 1.1M followers, 285.1K engagements

"PRINCIPLE: Languages (and religions) move faster than populations via the minority rule*. Add: Turks are (largely) Greeks and Armenians who speak Turkish; Palestinians are (largely) Judeans who speak Arabic. cc:@DalrympleWill *Proof via entropy"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:38Z 1.1M followers, 156.3K engagements

"Warren Buffett invested in tobacco companies because he found that OVERSEAS consumers were captive and their govts complacent. He was knowingly and willfully selling cancer. Don't let him bullshit you"
X Link 2025-12-06T13:22Z 1.1M followers, 273.3K engagements

"He stopped X years later because it was not good for his image"
X Link 2025-12-06T13:29Z 1.1M followers, 36.2K engagements

"$750 million to hide the truth. Will it keep working"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:44Z 1.1M followers, 117.1K engagements

"This bro-science retard does not know how to read paper: "At baseline the mean age of participants was XXXX years (SD 7.9)". So many people comment without knowing what they are talking about. Increasing survival of senior citizens is NOT increasing athletic performance"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:20Z 1.1M followers, 271K engagements

"The problem of cosmetic "democracy" is that the voting system can be gamed by lobbies"
X Link 2025-12-11T13:10Z 1.1M followers, 97.4K engagements