Thanks for the link! To summarize the Nassim Taleb guy's criticisms as I understand them, he:
1. Is ignorant of the Lex guy's affiliation with MIT, and speculates about how tenuous the particulars could be.
2. Thinks Lex is misusing said MIT connection in unassociated emails.
3. Points to Lex's book-per-week pacing as indigestible given the material, concluding that Lex's persona is fraudulent, and his advocates are all idiots.
4. Uses Lex's courteous response to criticism, and subsequent choice to block said critic, as evidence that Lex is a "fake." There's allegedly supporting evidence of this regarding Kanye West/Vladimir Putin? (I'm ignorant of the reference.)
Full disclosure -- I don't use Twitter and gradually lost the mental wherewithal to slog through the "discourse" within that thread. Let me know if I missed/misunderstood something important.
I'm frankly more confused now. A popular podcaster apparently likes revisiting mostly high school reading material, is polite online, and leans on their institutional affiliation. Okay? Did he also like...shoot someone's grandma or something? I feel like a restaurant patron eavesdropping on a dysfunctional couple having a meltdown over ordering an appetizer that isn't reaaaally about ordering an appetizer. What the hell did this guy actually do?
1. Is ignorant of the Lex guy's affiliation with MIT, and speculates about how tenuous the particulars could be.
2. Thinks Lex is misusing said MIT connection in unassociated emails.
3. Points to Lex's book-per-week pacing as indigestible given the material, concluding that Lex's persona is fraudulent, and his advocates are all idiots.
4. Uses Lex's courteous response to criticism, and subsequent choice to block said critic, as evidence that Lex is a "fake." There's allegedly supporting evidence of this regarding Kanye West/Vladimir Putin? (I'm ignorant of the reference.)
Full disclosure -- I don't use Twitter and gradually lost the mental wherewithal to slog through the "discourse" within that thread. Let me know if I missed/misunderstood something important.
I'm frankly more confused now. A popular podcaster apparently likes revisiting mostly high school reading material, is polite online, and leans on their institutional affiliation. Okay? Did he also like...shoot someone's grandma or something? I feel like a restaurant patron eavesdropping on a dysfunctional couple having a meltdown over ordering an appetizer that isn't reaaaally about ordering an appetizer. What the hell did this guy actually do?