Elite Club for Cool Kids and Other Smarties

Człowiek, którego książkę przeczytawszy już nigdy nie byłem taki sam. Zacząłem myśleć w ogóle lub w sposób, który nigdy nigdy nie wpadłbym mi do głowy. Dowiedziałem się dużo o etyce, filozofii, prawdzie, nieprawdzie, nauce, o rzeczywistości, o heurystykach, o stoicyzmie, o klasie, o losowości w życiu, o mediach, o błędach poznawczych, o sporcie i Czarnych Łabędziach. Zacząłem kompletnie inaczej postrzegać świat. Z epistemologiczną pokorą i respektem dla nieznanego niewiadomego.

Ten gość to Nassim N. Taleb. Poniżej zamieszczam kilka myśli na zachętę.


[2:22:22 PM] Bartek S: Fitness is certainly the sign of strength,
but outside of natural stimuli the drive to
acquire fitness can signal some deep
incurable weakness.

[2:22:53 PM] Bartek S: They are born, then put in a box; they go
home to live in a box; they study by ticking
boxes; they go to what is called "work" in
a box, where they sit in their cubicle box;
they drive to the grocery store in a box to
buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a
box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking
"outside the box"; and when they die they
are put in a
box. All boxes, Euclidian, geometrically
smooth boxes.

[2:23:14 PM] Bartek S: Another definition of modernity:
conversations can be more and more
completely reconstructed with clips from
other conversations taking place at the
same time on the planet.

[2:24:17 PM] Bartek S: There are two types of people: those who
try to win and those who try to win
arguments. They are never the same.

[2:25:00 PM] Bartek S: Social media are severely antisocial,
health foods are empirically
unhealthy, knowledge workers are very
ignorant, and social sciences aren't
scientific at all.

Just like poets and artists, bureaucrats are
born, not made; it takes
normal humans extraordinary effort to
keep attention on such boring tasks.