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I'll ask again, did you actually read the submission? I get how cliche it is to ask this but you genuinely seem ignorant of the entire basis is this conversation. If you had read the submission, you would know how flawed and useless IQ tests are, and how they reward test taking abilities over intellect.

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I have read the submission, but have you? Did you somehow miss the complete absence of substance in it? Which part of it should have me convinced? That Taleb said so and did so emphatically? That you are now repeating it emphatically?

Please remain civil and refrain from calling me ignorant. I have read the submission and disagree with its (lack of) argument.

How can I do anything but call you ignorant when you say things like "did you somehow miss the complete absence of substance in it?"

You're not following HN rules by refusing to address the best form of the argument, and when you break rules like that, it makes it hard to stay civil.

You crashed into this comment thread immediately accusing me of not reading the submission without actually stating an argument. If you do have an argument, feel free to present it.

Again, not about me, it's about the argument, and there's a great one in the article itself, as well as throughout the comments here. Stop focusing on me, start focusing on the arguments. If I'm not making a good argument, why are you replying?

He's correct, Taleb is a crank troll, not an expert in the field, and is talking entirely out of his narcissist asshole. There's no solid argument there at all.

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