Nassim Taleb on What Bitcoiners, Anti-Vaxxers and Deadlift Maxis All Get Wrong

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Nassim Taleb has never been shy about expressing his viewpoints on a wide range of topics. But lately he's been getting into verbal tussles with people who have long looked up to his wisdom. Whether it's Bitcoiners, venture capitalists, deadlifters, or anti-vaxxers, many people within these communities have admired his philosophy of antifragility. So why has he taken to arguing with them on Twitter? What exactly are they getting wrong about his ideas? And for that matter, why has he himself gotten into cycling lately? In this wide ranging conversation, the author of books such as Antifragile, The Black Swan, and Fooled by Randomness talks about all these topics and more — including how to think about reducing tail risk in one's own life.

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0:50.1	exciting to be recording an episode with you again. I missed you for real. I
0:55.6	missed you for real. Thank you. I actually, I think this might be the first time in
0:59.7	my life that I've been happy to come back from vacation. Honestly, a lot
1:05.7	happened while I was away. It was beautiful, by the way. I went to the
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1:33.4	I can take a guess, but go ahead. I did a deadlift. I've been, I've been, I've
1:42.5	been lifting weights at the gym and I did. I'm not going to say what my
1:45.9	care. I was about to say dare I ask. I'm not going, I'm still very weak. I'm not
1:50.4	going to say what my PR is. My personal record is, but it was very satisfying. I
1:55.5	felt good. And now I'm like, you know, keep doing, I've been doing weights for a
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