emailrhoads·6 jaar geleden·discussTaleb writes about this with the phrase IYI intellectual yet idiot.His primary concern is that these people don't take risk and become bureaucrats. Not that they are smart, brainy, or any other ad hominem attack masked as a compliment.https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
emailrhoads·6 jaar geleden·discussShe addresses many of your rebuttals quite well here http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/03/nonsense-arguments-...
His primary concern is that these people don't take risk and become bureaucrats. Not that they are smart, brainy, or any other ad hominem attack masked as a compliment.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...