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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a renowned author, scholar, and thinker whose unique perspective and profound insights have had a wide-reaching impact in fields such as finance, statistics, and philosophy. He is best known for his books 'The Black Swan' and 'Fooled by Randomness', which have explored the nature of uncertainty, risk, and probability theory.

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“...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.”

Nerd Modernity Fragility Clarity Of Thought Nerds Internet Addiction Nerdiness Modernity Is A Sickness Robustness Modern Values Wisdom Vs Nerdiness

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.”

Needs Rich Becoming Modernity Being Rich

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.”

Distance Relevant Modernity Sensational

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism”

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“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”

Age Youth Heroism Modernity Grandeur

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal”

May Problem Lying Growing Separation Ethical Modernity

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”

Soul Body Care Fighting Natural Levels Results Exercise Bed Take Care Defense My Soul Procrastination Existential Modernity Ecological Entrapment

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.”

Law Ethics Lawyer Replaced Modernity Good Lawyer

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.”

Trying Helping Parent Hurt Tragedy Modernity Overprotective

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.”

Planets Conversation Definitions Modernity Clip

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms