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# ![@nntaleb Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::381289719.png) @nntaleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb posts on X about netanyahu, islam, gaza, palestine the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::381289719/interactions)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::381289719/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  XXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  #1155 [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[netanyahu](/topic/netanyahu) #28, [islam](/topic/islam) #1568, [gaza](/topic/gaza) #1700, [palestine](/topic/palestine) #317, [israel](/topic/israel) #4008, [over the](/topic/over-the) 0.71%, [has been](/topic/has-been) 0.48%, [ambassador](/topic/ambassador) 0.48%, [france](/topic/france) 0.48%, [$7k](/topic/$7k) #9

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::381289719/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"@MChristopher_MD @nishantak @PeterAttiaMD Retard this is not what I wrote"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977476383933878616) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-12T20:48Z 1.1M followers, XXX engagements


"Traditionally silver has been for transactions and gold for storage (since Phoenicians). Money in Spanish is "plata" in French "argent" in Latin "argentum" Canaanite . There were short unsuccessful phases of bimetalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977853908799140271) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-13T21:48Z 1.1M followers, 36K engagements


"@VO2_maximum Let us know when they start buying. So far it is speculators like me who own SLV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977738462032691537) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-13T14:09Z 1.1M followers, 9421 engagements


"@KonstantinKisin Fucking idiot I said it was over the centuries slow and progressive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975561934964666452) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-07T14:00Z 1.1M followers, 342K engagements


"2/ And BTW Jesus was disowned by Jewish tradition called by his Greek name "Yessu ha-Notzri" not Yehoshua. Often called "Ben Pantera" as the son of a supposed Roman-Phoenician soldier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975957061944184852) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-08T16:10Z 1.1M followers, 32.4K engagements


"When I said pple lost interest in bitcoin it was based on this: BTC Volume is slowly disappearing down XX% from the peak. As volume drops manipulations become easier but at some point manipulators will need to exit. This is how Open Ponzis implode"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1689974862587006976) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2023-08-11T12:19Z 1.1M followers, 895.2K engagements


"Mature democracies have entered a dystopia: the smaller the injustice the more extreme the response; the greater the injustice the deeper the bureaucratic indifference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1973438556535398875) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-01T17:23Z 1.1M followers, 219.7K engagements


"Predictably: this is a reminder that immigration works only in small quantities; even when the people look superficially the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1972311343261950014) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-28T14:44Z 1.1M followers, 225.4K engagements


"The introduction to my paper on data hacking particularly p-hacking. For comments"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1973476410993025503) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-01T19:53Z 1.1M followers, 95K engagements


"I know who said it BTW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977102189459038344) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-11T20:01Z 1.1M followers, 38.5K engagements


"The True ancestors of Palestinians created Judaism Christianity and produced dozens of Greco-Roman authors: Isidorus of Gaza Aeneas of Gaza Procopius of Gaza Marinus of Neapolis (Nablus) Procopius of Caesarea Timotheus of Gaza etc. etc. cc:@DalrympleWill (note :race-obsessed@primalpoly is of both low intelligence AND low erudition)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1959964025363587178) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-08-25T13:00Z 1.1M followers, 272.7K engagements


"Anyone w/decent skills in discrete mathematics & combinatorics (capable of proving a theorem) & w/geometric intuitions shd be capable of raising their IQ test scores 150-160 by dint of training GRE-style without increasing their intellect a bit. IQ is a fraud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1899217084145660354) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-03-10T21:53Z 1.1M followers, 183.6K engagements


"Hasbara Fake News du jour: Retardito @craigiskowitz Ottomans were not into forced conversions. Serbia/Romania/Bulgaria/Roumeli etc. stayed Orthodox. This was a brutal POLITICAL punitive putting down of an uprising using pre-Islamic Persian punishment methods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977892645792805178) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-14T00:22Z 1.1M followers, 107.4K engagements


"Is AI different In the past technologies (dishwashers word processors etc.) moved workers up the added value scale w/productivity at the bottom. AI is moving lawyerseditorsradiologists into lower value jobs: Uber drivers waiters. Gains are going to technofeudalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976271162943602696) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-09T12:58Z 1.1M followers, 188.1K engagements


"Note: Southern Levant: Judaism/Samaritanism (mostly) & Paganism =Christianity Other Parts: Paganism ("Hellenism" in West other in East) =Christianity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975566517749358994) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-07T14:18Z 1.1M followers, 97.9K engagements


"You can always count on Claire Lehmann Brothers to talk about things she knows nothing about without knowing that she knows nothing about them. Jihad means: diligence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1974240301779734739) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-03T22:29Z 1.1M followers, 284.2K engagements


"Although Grok is somewhat controlled by you know who they cannot fully control its output (too many degrees of freedom). "Bibi trolls" go on my threads sowing doubt by claiming it is "nonsense" hoping it would dilute the effect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1978073840514146566) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-14T12:22Z 1.1M followers, 29.6K 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](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1971220827350970710) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-25T14:30Z 1.1M followers, 62.2K engagements


"All rumors are false until officially denied"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1972355309009318131) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-28T17:38Z 1.1M followers, 457.8K engagements


"Looks like things changed after Trump's U.N. meeting with Arabs. His animal instinct detected that they gave him a natural respect. There was mutual trust & common interest. In contrast Netanyahu exuded distrust particularly that Israelis walk around like they own America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1974592171304206553) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-04T21:47Z 1.1M followers, 128.9K engagements


"These @FortuneMagazine idiots got it backwards. My point was that bike lanes contribute to IMPROVEMENT in well-being and happiness WITHOUT generating economic growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1971202824144027846) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-25T13:19Z 1.1M followers, 166.5K engagements


"Someone warned me in 2023 that owing to my posts on Palestine my book career was over (but I could fix it w/loud repentance). Predictably I told him to fuck off. Well this SundayThe Black Swan after XX years is back on NYT Bestseller List. Never compromise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1941213960981586294) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-07-04T19:14Z 1.1M followers, 772.3K engagements


"I don't know if things got better for @CharlesMurray but it takes some erudition to write about religion something he seriously lacks. Scumbag made XX mistakes in a single page on his book on the "West". I didn't bring it up in debate & he paid be back with ingratitude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976991945147973869) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-11T12:43Z 1.1M followers, 122.8K 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](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1873342940883624171) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2024-12-29T12:18Z 1.1M followers, 399.8K engagements


"For the past 9m every time I've seen Trump or any of his myrmidons making an economics statement has prompted me to buy gold-- irresistibly. The solution may be to block all news except for bicycle information. I need to reduce"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1970844674777649455) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-24T13:36Z 1.1M followers, 154K engagements


"I've seen numerous such roads to Damascus on the part of Zionists & Israel sympathizers in the past two years. And I haven't see that road travelled by non-Israelis in the other direction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1974292966199132443) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-04T01:58Z 1.1M followers, 129.6K engagements


"A Palestinian whose family was ethnically cleansed from Gaza in 1948 won the Nobel Prize. He was lucky 1srael did not kill him as they routinely do with skilled Palestinians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975953642231587019) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-08T15:57Z 1.1M followers, 518.7K engagements


"I too was fooled to believe for a long time that the Palestinians were the ones who "did not want to settle". Then I realized it was the exact opposite; even before Netanyahu. Now I feel shame at having being played"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1978481494424244616) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-15T15:22Z 1.1M followers, 634K engagements


"Please do not make any accusation produce any conspiracy theory unless Netanyahu issues a denial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1973503310540972071) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-01T21:40Z 1.1M followers, 112.1K engagements


"My critique: IQ psychologists are stat-ignorant bullshitters it explains less than X % of success (only predicts mental detardation). Their response: proves IQ psychologists are stat-ignorant bullshitters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1973434344674136436) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-01T17:06Z 1.1M followers, 235.5K 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](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1974076563596710213) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-03T11:38Z 1.1M followers, 269.3K engagements


"Schoolteachers tutors radiologists translators paralegals accountants programmers Spanish grammar specialists health advisers internet grifters web page designers exam cheating consultants IQ bullshitters. All these have nothing but downward mobility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976273219087958324) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-09T13:07Z 1.1M followers, 55.7K engagements


"Correction: Greco-Romans ruled 1000 y (excluding Hasmoneans for 78y) Ottomans 400y Arab Califate 300y add XX for Ayyubides Egyptian New Kindom ruled XXX years over Canaan (until Bronze Age Collapse) Mamluks 250y until Ottomans Persians 200y Israelites unsure until XXX (200y) then Assyrians then Babylonians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977858227095171307) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-13T22:05Z 1.1M followers, 292.3K engagements


"I just published The World in Which We Live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1967478646182166963) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-15T06:40Z 1.1M followers, 619.6K engagements


"Lies likely the "$7K Bibi" Hasbara at work. I walk around Amman with a cross the size of Minneapolis & nobody has ever bothered me. There are even North Arabian tribes (Haddadin) in Jordan that are Christian & were never pushed to convert in the past 1400 years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976998108988068187) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-11T13:07Z 1.1M followers, 289.5K engagements


"This retard @KonstantinKisin didn't get that these were conversions of locals from Judaism to Christianity then to Islam over the centuries not invasion by Peninsular Arabs. It's like saying that France became Christian because its Celtic population was replaced by Romans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975558836095492180) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-07T13:48Z 1.1M followers, 900K engagements


"STATISTICAL MISTAKE DU JOUR If a portion of those with low cholesterol use statins because they are metabolically ill then the cohort will have a higher mortality rate (but their HR would be even higher without controlling LDL). Similar to Simpson's paradox. h/t @drjohnm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1974597815621009537) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-04T22:09Z 1.1M followers, 171.6K engagements


"Things are spreading. A PARALYZING general strike in Italy in support of the Gaza Flottila and against the Italian govt's position. Things come from the bottom not the top. More to come. Slowly (alas for the victims) but surely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1973496219495440485) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-01T21:12Z 1.1M followers, 157.1K engagements


"The World in Which We Live Now. X Points. Lecture at the Ron Paul Institute Annual Meeting. Thanks @DanielLMcAdams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1966963169940943176) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-13T20:32Z 1.1M followers, 265.5K engagements


"Two years of Gaza and the eye opening it caused (on historical facts vs propaganda) is drawing me to view some people with such MORAL DISGUST that I am afraid of my own emotional reactions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1978110999241625837) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-14T14:49Z 1.1M followers, 192.4K engagements


"Gaza is the second intellectual shock I've had in my life: it shows the prevalence of psychopaths among otherwise well-functioning seemingly civilized people. Few people are genuinely virtuous; they just act that way under the minority rule of the truly virtuous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1917602097056424097) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-04-30T15:29Z 1.1M followers, 367.1K engagements


"Total nonsense. Jesus is orders of magnitude more connected (both by blood and culture) to present-day Palestinians than to Mileikowski. This is a historical continuum of locally evolved cultures. @DineshDSouza is a propagandist with poor historical understanding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975918822361379010) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-08T13:38Z 1.1M followers, 164.7K engagements


"That is entirely backwards. The Levant was the most stable area in the world between early 1800s and 1948 with squirmishes in 1860. Compare to Europe's devastating wars; 1803-15 1833 1846 1848 1853 1870 1897 1914 1939"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1972307501715800461) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-28T14:28Z 1.1M followers, 303.7K engagements


"4/ Grok is good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1974283235472650573) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-04T01:19Z 1.1M followers, 56.3K engagements


"Many believe that someone coming from the private sector will be business-minded & not bureaucratic. No You get a salary (not a commission/cut) = you are a bureaucrat. CEOs are the most bureaucratic even those on incentive WORSE than government bureaucrats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1978801501079322978) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-16T12:33Z 1.1M followers, 114.8K engagements


"3/ Saying "good programmers/lawyers/. will do better by leveraging the technology" is to the point: the pool is necessarily shrinking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976276558408241540) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-09T13:20Z 1.1M followers, 51.3K engagements


"DISINFORMATION BUSTING DUJOUR -In the "Mountain War" Christians vs Druze Israel sided with the Druze w/ethnic cleansing. -It was the Allawite Assad who saved the Christians in 1976 as they were losing the war. -The "civil war" was both directly & indirectly CAUSED by Isra3l"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977019546180649404) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-11T14:32Z 1.1M followers, 129.7K engagements


"When 1) you only respect scholarly rigor 2) come from a Christian community that survived (even thrived) under Islam for XX C 3) are avid reader of history in the ORIGINAL languages you can be allergic to charlatans like @KonstantinKisin w/Netanyahu propaganda clickers. Note the "dhimmi" fictions promoted by Zionists like Bat Ye'or is crap --it paid to be Christian & sometimes pay lower taxes than Muslims & often lower taxes than under the Byzantines. See my piece on conversion & the minority rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975602731319521503) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-07T16:42Z 1.1M followers, 63K engagements


"In a rational market ground floor apartments in Moscow should sell at a huuuuuge premium"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976060972067586241) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-08T23:03Z 1.1M followers, 555.5K engagements


"Lifetime observation: the fancier the restaurant the fewer the smilesand even fewer the laughs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1970492345914134654) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-23T14:15Z 1.1M followers, 577K engagements


"Some facts 1-Maronites at some point voted predominantly for Hezb (Maradas Aounists). 2-Since you are going AD HOMINEM (in thread) You cannot be taken seriously as you know that I KNOW who paid you for the NY event propaganda. 3-Stay in your lane bullying defenceless Palestinians. History is not for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977102067882754115) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-11T20:00Z 1.1M followers, 2012 engagements


"I am optimistic about the following. Indicted war criminal Netanyahu is still using his Hasbara v. 1971. Censorship & propaganda work only when invisible as we learned from the Soviet Union. Furthermore things work in reverse: if fuels conspiracy theories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1971931079604162857) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-27T13:33Z 1.1M followers, 170.8K engagements


"Don't risk it all betting against a bubble. I know it is tempting but resist: Spitznagel's come to Jesus moment: close your eyes and imagine + XX% and -50%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1825604558724411691) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2024-08-19T18:43Z 1.1M followers, 179K engagements


"Finally cardiologists are becoming aware of the Lp(a) flaw but still unable to fix risk factors. No point lowering LDL(ApoB) below 100(equiv) for primary prevention for negative Lp(a); one must overreact for high Lp(a)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977353057609359692) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-12T12:38Z 1.1M followers, 182.2K engagements


"Over a lifespan Ive observed that people who are petty argumentative narrowly competitive envious & grudging tend toactually alwaysfail professionally in spite of occasional lucky breaks. They also fail in their marriages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1970064125720932596) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-22T09:54Z 1.1M followers, 369.4K engagements


"Vastly More Effective Options: 1- Buy a Ferrari (or a Porsche if very poor) 2- Get a couple of bespoke Brioni suits get them slightly rumpled 3- Suede shoes even in the summer 4- Train to talk to her as if it were about her not you 5- Write a bad novel 6- Make her smile"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1965134501094531317) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-08T19:25Z 1.1M followers, 390.6K engagements


"It is not an involution (self-inverse): if I wrote the book slowly & by walking slowly the reader does not have to read it slowly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1974593154579124614) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-04T21:51Z 1.1M followers, 196.8K engagements


"This is a remarkable insight by Tom Barrack: America's real business interests lies in collaborative not adversarial relations with Muslim countries simply because of the sheer numbers & growth (as it was pre-1967). I wonder when this was made"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1973816678002930023) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-02T18:25Z 1.1M followers, 126.2K engagements


"The ability to know what you can't predict and work with unpredictability is the best measure of intelligence. (Fooled by Randomness Chapter on Philostratus)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1963909612677005580) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-05T10:18Z 1.1M followers, 387.4K engagements


"@ggreenwald Maybe I am conflating disinformation and censorship"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1978489298027504047) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-15T15:53Z 1.1M followers, 3907 engagements


"You want to be an author Be fearless. Be incorruptible. Be uncompromising but nuanced. Ignore your readers' preferences or opinions. You are not delivering summer fashion moccasins. If they don't like the stuff fuck them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1898553236988088499) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-03-09T01:55Z 1.1M followers, 204.6K engagements


"Nice try by propagandists. The "Viennese schnitzel" is made of veal. Same with its Milanese ancestor. My rule: propagandists of the "Bibi $7K" or other are typically dumb ignorant and totally unwordly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975955978039574927) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-08T16:06Z 1.1M followers, 123.4K engagements


""A probabilist is to a statistician what a car designer is to a mechanic". A Conversation with Nassim Taleb on the Risks of Cancer and Heart Disease"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1978442236661514446) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-15T12:46Z 1.1M followers, 128.9K engagements


"BTW Seneca never said that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976992704338043120) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-11T12:46Z 1.1M followers, 194K engagements


"Six months later it keeps going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975882381153440057) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-08T11:14Z 1.1M followers, 166K engagements


"I watched them double up every time before a ceasefire intensifying to cause maximal damage. And people think they act in good faith"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976091138621886521) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-09T01:03Z 1.1M followers, 219.7K engagements


"Friends a speculation. It is obvious that censorship fails when it is overt. How about concealed sneaky censorship (of the type we had on Palestine for all these years)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1978471515046953213) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-15T14:42Z 1.1M followers, 93.1K engagements


"The point the FT editorial writer doesn't get is that gold is not bought by central banks because they like its color but because there is no current alternative reserve currency that satisfies the BRICS zone agenda. Assets in $ & have been frozen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977351416881549689) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-12T12:31Z 1.1M followers, 185.6K engagements


"@EdwardIanKearns Retardo $XX million is something I wd buy not a central bank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977836350855663689) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-13T20:38Z 1.1M followers, 3417 engagements


"When 1) you only respect scholarly rigor 2) come from a Christian community that survived (even thrived) under Islam for XX C 3) are avid reader of history in the ORIGINAL languages you can be allergic to charlatans like @KonstantinKisin w/Netanyahu propaganda clickers. Note the "dhimmi" fictions promoted by Zionists like Bat Ye'or is crap --it paid to be Christian & sometimes pay lower taxes than Muslims & often lower taxes than under the Byzantines. See my piece on conversion & the minority rule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1975602312958910748) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-07T16:41Z 1.1M followers, 186K engagements


"How ChatGPT answers questions when it has no idea about the answer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1806118775319560525) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2024-06-27T00:14Z 1.1M followers, 158.1K engagements


"If I understand Covid anti-vaxxers (& those who believe it was just a hoax) voted for Trump who just got vaccinated & are not complaining. Am I missing something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977460222202380644) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-12T19:43Z 1.1M followers, 109K engagements


"@ye_dennis The Abuse of Casuistry is a horrible book with a deceiving title. They actually defend casuistry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1976630551827067193) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-10T12:47Z 1.1M followers, 10.8K engagements


"Going to Caf de Flore for food (let alone onion soup) is the equivalent of going to Mar-a-Lago to discuss Kant Algazel & other topics of some philosophical depth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1971318598594347340) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-25T20:59Z 1.1M followers, 330.9K engagements


"If you hear someone saying something once he is trying to convince you; twice he is trying to convince himself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1973070848824078829) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-30T17:02Z 1.1M followers, 165.8K engagements


"RIP Pope Francis. He was genuinely truly compassionate and virtuous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1917608353158631808) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-04-30T15:53Z 1.1M followers, 59K 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](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1818310539199627334) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2024-07-30T15:39Z 1.1M followers, 6M engagements


"Netanyahu bullshitting an empty room. There are two types of delegates 1) Those who know he is bullshitting but have some professional interest in staying in the room (slaves); 2) Those who know he is bullshitting but have left the room"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1971725834794016870) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-09-26T23:57Z 1.1M followers, 235K engagements


"You can think it is a good idea to be long silver (I have been for a long time). But it is a mistake to think that it is in the "same asset class" as gold. Why Central Banks are not accumulating silver. (It may correlate weakly but the substitution is weak.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977709925095604330) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-13T12:16Z 1.1M followers, 274.3K engagements


"No matter what you say about Trump no matter Biden"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977550646212518004) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-13T01:43Z 1.1M followers, 245.3K engagements


"Laura Loony seems stupid enough to bullshitting where she can be caught. There are a lot of North Arabian tribes that did not convert to Islam & still bear Arabian garb. Hawatmeh is a well known Christian North-Arabian clan. They have been Christian for perhaps 2000 years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1977113046071099759) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-11T20:44Z 1.1M followers, 122.8K engagements


"@IndianLatino Incentives WITHOUT disincentives is free option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1978811376786108525) [@nntaleb](/creator/x/nntaleb) 2025-10-16T13:12Z 1.1M followers, 5355 engagements