"Taleb has an updated post up at medium that takes care of most of this. You could take the time to weigh that in against this all over again.

And if you come back here in a few days, I may have a post up about how this is a trivial misunderstanding of NNT's case. Quantitatively."

Anybody who understands Taleb's argument realizes that these "counterarguments" are missing the mark. The fact that they spend more time obsessing his "meanness to them" than on his arguments, without understanding that his meanness is never directed at people who disagree, only people who bullshit, proves that point.