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His reply to his own tweet is hilarious. He's playing chess whilst we're all playing checkers

I don't recall Taleb calling others idiots much in his book.

I do recall Taleb admiring himself, though. A lot.

He’s just a pathological narcissist that functionally aliterate traders think is a philosopher.

His books are mostly unoriginal fluff that could be expressed in a few pages.

I wonder if there is maybe some other, easier, way of checking if someone's an idiot.

This seems transparently ridiculous coming from someone as famously thin-skinned and pugnacious as Taleb.