Jayant G. @golchha_J Twitter profile

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Jayant G.

@golchha_J

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Jayant G.

@golchha_J

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@GoujianofYue @Satyaki_R @OptimoPrincipi The idea of doing all things as a “side activity” is priceless.

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Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years

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Overqualified is robust.

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A sad day Danny Kahneman, 1934-2024 Most people knew him as a thinker. I knew him as a person.

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@GoujianofYue @nntaleb

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@Stephen_Geiger @nntaleb I now know why @nntaleb wanted to take a selfie with him.

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No, I don't want to "learn fast", in any subject. I don't want shortcuts. If I don't enjoy the subject, I don't want to learn it; and if I enjoy it, I want to prolong the pleasure. I avoid what exam-takers do: I trade speed for depth.

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Happy Birthday Maestro! "Life is not about self-satisfaction but the satisfaction of a sense of duty. It is all or nothing. Nine out of 10 would be total failure." - @nntaleb

The Inventory: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘Who is my mentor? I have inverse mentors: people I learnt to not imitate,’ says the scholar and philosopher

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@nntaleb Reading the article reminded me of:

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Kill hope.

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@JamesMarsh79 @nntaleb Nassim has said to be overqualified in professional stuff so that you are always operating above your expertise, with ease. ChatGPT oversells & underdelivers; Mathematica, for e.g., the opposite (you just know it will work).

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Something (really) worth thinking about (imho), by @nntaleb .

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“When people say their goal in life is to be happy they are telling you they are miserable.” - John Gray

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No, sorry, we can't tell whether money buys or doesn't buy happiness. When you see correlations around .09, all one can say is NO USEABLE INFORMATION. The effect is visible and valid ONLY for between 1 and 4 persons out of 100.

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“If you want to be indifferent to criticism you must also be indifferent to praise.” — NNT

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@Eleni_Co @nntaleb Announcing you won't do something indicates you're open to changing your mind.

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@nntaleb “If your approach to mathematics is mechanical not mystical, you're not going to go anywhere.” - @nntaleb

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@nntaleb @YouTube

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@GoujianofYue @Satyaki_R @OptimoPrincipi The idea of doing all things as a “side activity” is priceless.

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@nntaleb “Promiscuous tourism,” as you once put it.

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@normfinkelstein @Satyaki_R And also, the “reason” offered (participation by a dozen UNRWA workers on Oct 7) has no bearing on what Israel is currently perpetrating.

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@Satyaki_R “The worst thing you could fo with money is to spend it.” — trader adage

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You learn the most when learning is not your objective. cc: @paulportesi

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Finally.

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This is the way to approach math, and pretty much everything else. No static or sterile mastery. cc: @Satyaki_R

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No author has shaped my worldview more than Nassim Taleb ( @nntaleb ). I stumbled on The Black Swan eight years ago, then inhaled the rest of the Incerto. I've increasingly come to appreciate the importance of its ideas to prolonging the human story. Was an honour to speak with

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@golchha_J “Use courage and wisdom, not labor, to make money.” - NNT

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@nntaleb my greatest training in my youth was travelling - during summers back to Rajasthan - in cheap trains, buses, etc. not really a denial of luxuries, but learning to see that happiness lied elsewhere

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“People usually apologize so they can do it again.” - @nntaleb

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BREAKING: Netanyahu says the air strike in Rafah on Sunday was "a tragic mistake" and adds that it will be investigated

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‘Straw Dogs,’ John Gray.

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“The great Pasteur … understood that you do not look for something particular every morning but work hard to let contingency enter your working life.” - @nntaleb

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Wrong, Jimmy. Stop spreading dangerous misinformation. Fact is, whatever harm there is from vaccines is waaay less than that from Covid, and countless lives have been saved.

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Vaccines normally take 10 years to test to make sure they're not toxic & don't kill people or cause more harm than good. What is shocking to me is not that these Vaccines that were rushed to market at warp speed turned out to be toxic & harmful, but I'm shocked at how

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“sitting around doing nothing and enjoying fuzziness”— @nntaleb

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@rossiadam People have “busy” “schedules” now, with no slack.

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Wish me luck!

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If you think someone’s “changed,” it means you never really knew them.

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@nntaleb As a child, the epitome of thrill & freedom. Still incomparable.

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#RWRI16

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Twitter is the greatest school on Earth.

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At least in Roman times, there was some requirement for senators to be / have been productive members of society. In modern times, political “elites” are are largely rent-seekers and have never contributed to society, yet seek even more power.

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How does @holland_tom , the author of “Dominion,” have nothing* to say about the genocide & ethnic cleaning in Palestine? Truly incomprehensible. Not a single episode on @TheRestHistory as well. *A paywalled article on @thetimes doesn’t count.

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So pumped for #RWRI16 .

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Possibly the best beer ever cc: @digvijoy_c

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@nntaleb Your success should pleasantly surprise you.

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And for sociality, solitude.

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@nntaleb As for ‘failure,’ riffing off your “kill hope” heuristic, treat it as the default state (that you can live with).

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DC, Gordon & I

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@nntaleb These reflectiona say it all:

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@nntaleb @HardeepSPuri So glad that a minister in the Indian government engages with you & takes your ideas seriously. Gives me hope —however fragile it is — for the country’s future.

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The 4 classical virtues: Courage, Prudence, Temperance, and Justice. I learn from Veyne that the 4 are, according to the Stoics, inseparable. You either have them all or none of them; they are one and inseparable.

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@nntaleb Reminds me of your tweet about Omar Sharif ... extremely cultured, and didn't socialise with other actors (except love affairs). About the company you keep...

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Happy for India 🇮🇳

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#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Essayist and Statistician Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb in New York.

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Arnaud hits the bullseye. Excessive luxury is tasteless, inelegant, disrespectful to the weak, and contemptuous of fate.

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This is actually a very significant difference between India and China. Never would a Chinese billionaire dare have such an ostentatious wedding, because they understand how indecent it'd be and how badly it'd be perceived by pretty much everyone. And never would a senior party

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A must-have in everyone’s library.

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Today is Guru Pūrnimā. @nntaleb , life would’ve been very different without your wisdom & teaching. Thank you. 🙏🏻

Guru Purnima - Wikipedia

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“Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.” @nntaleb said it first & better.

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Trying to understand consciousness in general by studying only neuroscience and cognitive science is like trying to understand the history of literature by studying ink and paper.

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A trivial but (now) obvious consequence of @nntaleb ’s idea of antifragility: the goal isn't to criticise or change modernity (except where others are being harmed), it is to be antifragile to it.

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14 years; miss you Papa.

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Ivan the Terrible once put a man to death for giving him unsollicited advice.

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Learning a language is like riding a bicycle: if you go too slow, you’ll stumble; sufficiently quick and it’s thrilling.

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Too much information is the principal curse of modernity; a lot more effort is spent noise reduction, leaving precious little on honing signal detection.

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FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS My conjecture, expressed on X, that pple w/news in advance don't do well has been tested by Haghani et al. Indeed they failed to really capitalize on information 1) you don't know beforehand what is noise, & 2) overestimate the information (sizing)

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@nntaleb @Kaju_Nut The “establishment” is exposing itself as actually clueless about its own subject matter; yuuuge insecurity.

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"Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, noble, elegant, robust, and heroic life." — NN Taleb

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@hjluks Dr. Luks, respectfully, Israel is entitled to self-defense, but what it’s doing goes way beyond. And also, said country was established by the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population - from their point of view (vast majority of whom are not terrorists), said country is the

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@ryannel_dev @nntaleb @rorysutherland This is so stupid

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@nntaleb A corollary is avoiding excessive audiovisual stimulation too. “Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.”

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Finally! Also tried the best Levantine beer.

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@JamesMarsh79 @nntaleb A lot of innovation & development still required for LLMs to be viable.

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Did not expect to see Syrus quoted in HK

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Surat, India

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We have less useless things to do.

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Absolutely grim. There’s 1.5 billion Indians and their medal count is ranked with countries like Ireland which only has 5 million people

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@nntaleb Interesting, this would suggest more Z1 than Z2 cc: @hjluks

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@TedMoondust @nntaleb

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un dimanche félin, par la grâce de Dieu

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@Satyaki_R “The worst thing you could fo with money is to spend it.” — trader adage

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Noise.

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Richer people tend to have more diverse diets. They get a lower share of their calories from staples such as cereals, roots, and tubers and increase their consumption of fruit, vegetables, dairy, and meat. The chart shows the relationship between meat supply and gross domestic

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Selective outrage. If you want empathy, you need to give it first.

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Meanwhile not a word from @UNHumanRights about the genocide against Hindus in Bangladesh….. not a word

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@digvijoy_c @cluesfromSophia @NahanniFinanci1

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@marco_m_alves @nntaleb "The greatest & least visible cost of civilization is the need to make an effort for bodily and mental exercise (and call it "work"), compared to the effortless life under natural stimuli (both physical and mental)." - @nntaleb

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Bob (surprisingly).

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Flip a fair coin 100 times—it gives a sequence of heads (H) and tails (T). For each HH in the sequence of flips, Alice gets a point; for each HT, Bob does, so e.g. for the sequence THHHT Alice gets 2 points and Bob gets 1 point. Who is most likely to win?

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Success at low-dimensional activities is a sign of failure.

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#FooledByRandomness

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The single biggest commonality of the most successful investors having interviewed 2,850. The large majority of the best moved many times in their childhood, different homes, countries, schools. By far the biggest commonality.

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The most memorable moments aren’t captured. cc: @paulportesi

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“Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do—something people who take showers discover on occasion.” — @nntaleb

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New habit I've taken up is taking dark showers. Not pitch black—just no light on. The natural light from the windows is enough. There's something much more relaxing about a hot shower without a light in my face. Not sure if anyone else does this.

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“The most important aspect of fasting is that you feel deep undirected gratitude when you break the fast. --- Every human should learn to read, write, respect the weak, disrespect the strong when warranted, and fast. ---” — NN Taleb

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Bye bye Amman, thank you, and hope to be back.

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The mistake is to assume the reader does the deciding. Use Lindy / time as a filter, and only read books you would re-read. There are many other tricks & heuristics.

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@nntaleb One of the few occasions where I will disagree with @nntaleb . Limiting one's reading ex-ante to "good books" requires that one has already decided what is a good book. How does one know? Surely it is better to be generally sceptical but read a lot of different books.

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@MasaSkiba “… except for the grocery-store mentality, I truly believe in the value of middleness and mediocrity—what humanist does not want to minimize the discrepancy between humans? Nothing is more repugnant than the inconsiderate ideal of the Übermensch!” - @nntaleb

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@nntaleb What an exquisitely enticing and intriguing title

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