Taleb on Black Swans, Fragility, and Mistakes

My favorite quote on Nassim Taleb's writings:<p><i>Taleb’s writings are filled with certainty, anger, and immodesty, having the Godelian impossibility of someone shouting 'I am the most humble!'</i><p>Spot on. From <a href="http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/review-of-talebs-black-swan.html" rel="nofollow">http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/review-of-talebs-blac...</a>.

Did I hear correctly? Taleb is betting on <i>hyperinflation</i>?<p>Talk about burying the lede.

The book is simply great. The arrogance people refér to is called skepticism towards bs