AHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>all of the sudden

Yeah I hadn't heard about him until the Trump election

>ywn be a millionaire who can retire in a beautiful Lebanese village just to shitpost all day

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>all of the sudden?
he wrote one popular book a decade ago, that was literally "beware of fat tails" repeated ad nauseum

and now he's popular among pseudo-intellectuals who idealize people like him, Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, etc., and popular among people who use the word "based" unironically

I'm making fun of your English, it's >all of a sudden

>be math major
>friend recommends this "book about statistics so you'll probably like it"
>mfw it's just probability 101 masqueraded as some novel insights

Everything he says about risk in the industry / markets is stuff that literally every professional or semi-thinking person already knows lmfao

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Damn that's based

>math major

unless you're genetically gifted, you'll end up being a highschool teacher lol

Can I get a quick rundown on the whole thing?

I already have a job lined up as a data scientist as soon as I graduate

lol this is fucking retarded

the math majors I know are literally landing the best jobs out there in data / finance / actuarial work. I study CS and I see these guys outcompeting me for positions at top 4 tech companies all the time.

If literal neuroscientists and clinical psychologists are “pseudointellectuals” to you I submit that you are such a pseudointellectual you don’t even know what the word means.

Butthurt mathlet detected.

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well duh, he managed a fund you brainlet

the entire point is that we're meat sacks whose archaic heuristics can be easily confounded by our limited perspectives despite us having an excellent understandings of the underlying statistics that would allow us to not fall for the illusions produced by those archaic heuristics

>data scientist
is that what we're calling data analyst these days? Well nice of them to give you a better title for your bitch work

Fair. I don't think his content is that bad, actually, I just can't stand his tone & the general underlying implication that he's figured things out nobody else in the industry already knows

>he thinks those two titles describe the same work

lmfao

I’ve read two (2) of his books, and his information is pretty good. It just seems like most of his fame comes from how loud he is and makes fun of other people.

So it's Thinking, Fast and Slow?

Similar, but somehow Thinking, Fast and Slow manages to be even more meandering and self-indulgent.

>Yeah I hadn't heard about him until the Trump election
he has written bunch of books about probability. Brainlet like you wouldn't understand..........

The "underlying tone" is that he hasn't figured everything out and anyone behaving as if they have is an idiot.