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    Writer of the 'black swan' (just started reading it), 'fooled by randomness' and some other book I forgot.

    "It's not what you know that will hurt you, but that which you don't know."


    You can watch and listen to him here:




    I think he's LII, and I'm somewhat certain of it. I hope to get some confirmation from you guys, or comments when I'm wrong.

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    I've been watching a lot of video's of this highly interesting man on youtube.

    I now think he's ILE. He's alpha NT but speaks to quickly to be LII. He's more typically ILE.

    Thanks for the responses everyone :-(

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    Base Ne for sure. Probably ENTp, but there is a slight chance he is ENFp instead. There are times when he makes remarks that seem very strongly disapproving of Ti and he has a tendency to leave the explicit message of his statements vague (i.e. he would make a bunch of illustrative remarks, but stop short of really making a committed statement).

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    doesn't he look... chaotic to you. he lacks the composedness and calmness of an INTj. also the people who he typically criticizes are those who neglect the extent to which chaos and randomness influence systems. he is an enemy of everything that assumes too stable a model of reality.

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    He can't be an IJ type, his mimicry is extremely distant to anything IJ-ish, he is chaotic and expending energy trying to openly convince other people. I think some kind of EP-Ne is very likely...although I'm still torn between ENFp and ENTp. I've investigated a bit his life, and his closest business associated associates seem to be IxTp types, which might speak for ENFp...maybe.
    His pictures mostly look intuitive, imho.
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    I'll put in a quick vote for EP temperament (he's so spread out, not drawn in) and Ne all over the place. ENTp > ENFp, but just based on a brief impression.
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    I just watched those videos. Why ? and don't just say because he's scattered or has crude ideas, since I'm already aware of that. Will have to watch more.

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    Nassim is not Ti. He's Te.

    From the postscript of The Bed of Procrustes:

    "We are more likely to try to squeeze a phenomenon into the Procrustean bed of a crisp and known category (amputating the unknown), rather than suspend categorization, and make it tangible...Our mental architecture is at an increased mismatch with the world in which we live..."

    He's basically anti-Ti. I'm not sure if it's ignoring or demonstrative, though. His mathematical appendix to the Incerto might suggest demonstrative, but I could see a case for Ignoring.

    He can't distill his thoughts, cutting away the fat? Dude wrote a whole book of aphorisms. Can't get more distilled than that.

    He's a Vortical-Synergetic thinker. This shit sounds like he wrote it himself:

    "It operates on basis of testing, advancing to the goal through trial and error...Another advantage—faith in success and luck. Synergetics do not confuse temporary setbacks with error; they will undertake attempt after attempt until success ultimately comes to them."

    That makes him either ENTj or ISTp. I don't think he's a rational, but I also don't think he's an ST. My inclination is to say Ni-ENTj, or that he's a got a healthy dose of irrationality.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Whoobie77 View Post
    Nassim is not Ti. He's Te.

    From the postscript of The Bed of Procrustes:

    "We are more likely to try to squeeze a phenomenon into the Procrustean bed of a crisp and known category (amputating the unknown), rather than suspend categorization, and make it tangible...Our mental architecture is at an increased mismatch with the world in which we live..."

    He's basically anti-Ti. I'm not sure if it's ignoring or demonstrative, though. His mathematical appendix to the Incerto might suggest demonstrative, but I could see a case for Ignoring.

    He can't distill his thoughts, cutting away the fat? Dude wrote a whole book of aphorisms. Can't get more distilled than that.

    He's a Vortical-Synergetic thinker. This shit sounds like he wrote it himself:

    "It operates on basis of testing, advancing to the goal through trial and error...Another advantage—faith in success and luck. Synergetics do not confuse temporary setbacks with error; they will undertake attempt after attempt until success ultimately comes to them."

    That makes him either ENTj or ISTp. I don't think he's a rational, but I also don't think he's an ST. My inclination is to say Ni-ENTj, or that he's a got a healthy dose of irrationality.



    could you give some examples of what you read as "vortical-synergetic" in his work?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AshSun View Post
    could you give some examples of what you read as "vortical-synergetic" in his work?
    All of Antifragile, basically.

    "I like to make right mistakes", etc.

    I think he may be an ENFp valuing the Vortical Synergetic cognition of his dual, the ISTp, now, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AshSun View Post
    could you give some examples of what you read as "vortical-synergetic" in his work?
    It's just that a lot of Taleb's work falls into the realm of VS-HP cog-styles rather than DA-CD, which is why all the ILE typings are surprising. Some bits from the wiki:

    "He advocates what he calls a "black swan robust" society, meaning a society that can withstand difficult-to-predict events.[10] He proposes "antifragility" in systems, that is, an ability to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility[20][21] as well as "convex tinkering" as a method of scientific discovery, by which he means that option-like experimentation outperforms directed research."

    "Relatedly, he also believes that universities are better at public relations and claiming credit than generating knowledge. He argues that knowledge and technology are usually generated by what he calls "stochastic tinkering" rather than by top-down directed research." - ("Stochastic" trial-and-error tinkering is the way VS types approach experimentation and idea generation. From logical functions: "Left-dynamic positivists (ESE, LIE, SLI, IEI): Minus-plus logic -+L. Stochastic logic. Logic of probabilities, contingencies and exceptions, of mechanical sums rather than derivatives. Violation of hierarchy." So basically what Taleb in saying in terms of cog-styles in the first quote is "hey, lets generate a robust system that would actually benefit from all the chaos, volatility and randomness" which is essentially the interplay of HP and VS cog-styles).

    "Taleb's writings discuss the error of comparing real-world randomness with the "structured randomness" in quantum physics where probabilities are remarkably computable and games of chance like casinos where probabilities are artificially built. [LII - "natural logic", anti-artificiality] Taleb calls this the "Ludic fallacy". His argument centers on the idea that predictive models are based on Plato's Theory of Forms, gravitating towards mathematical purity and failing to take some key ideas into account, such as: the impossibility of possessing all relevant information, that small unknown variations in the data can have a huge impact, and flawed theories/models that are based on empirical data and that fail to consider events that have not taken place but could have taken place."

    "Taleb sees his main challenge as mapping his ideas of "robustification" and "anti-fragility", that is, how to live and act in a world we do not understand and build robustness to black swan events. Taleb introduced the idea of the "fourth quadrant" in the exposure domain.[64] One of its applications is in his definition of the most effective (that is, least fragile) risk management approach: what he calls the 'barbell' strategy which is based on avoiding the middle in favor of linear combination of extremes, across all domains from politics to economics to one's personal life."

    ... and there's more


    He's like the anti-ILE. ENTps are causal-determinists who don't advocate for super-robust all-encompassing systems, unlike their Ti dominant cousins the LII and the LSI, systems that would grow and benefit from random, unpredictable events, something that CD types simply negate and disown (Einstein, ILE: "God doesn't play dice with the world." vs Nassim Taleb: "He does play dice all the time, and we should capitalize on this! Anything that doesn't account for random dice draws is sheer fail.")

    My typing of Taleb has been LII-Ne with strong emphasis on creative function, which at first glance could make him appear as a Ne dominant since creative function is usually what's most blatantly 'visible' with creative subtypes.

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    Aristocratic type, probably ENFp

    For Whoobie77, I think you make a classic mistake and that is Ethic vs Logic bias. You're typing this person correctly as far as function values, but you obviously don't think an ethical type has the mental acumen to write the books Nassim Taleb wrote. You would be wrong.

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    I'm not doubting that a Feeler could write his stuff, I'm saying it was Fi/Te Vortical-Synergetic who wrote it. That isn't IEE.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whoobie77 View Post
    I'm not doubting that a Feeler could write his stuff, I'm saying it was Fi/Te Vortical-Synergetic who wrote it. That isn't IEE.
    Doesn't mean you didn't make the mistake either. You picked the two vortex thinkers that aren't Ethical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hkkmr View Post
    Doesn't mean you didn't make the mistake either. You picked the two vortex thinkers that aren't Ethical.
    Because they are both Fe/Ti, and would value Ti.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whoobie77 View Post
    Because they are both Fe/Ti, and would value Ti.
    Then I guess you made a mistake somewhere else. Anyways before you start having too many convictions about your typings. Ask yourself how many people of each type you really know. Then ask yourself that question again. Take a few years to ask this question of yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hkkmr View Post
    Then I guess you made a mistake somewhere else. Anyways before you start having too many convictions about your typings. Ask yourself how many people of each type you really know. Then ask yourself that question again. Take a few years to ask this question of yourself.
    I don't know any of these strange biological machines you call people. Why do you think I'm learning about social psychology haha

    Well, at least tell me this hkkmr. Have I typed myself wrong, too?

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    I now think he's definitely a Delta irrational. I feel dumb

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    wins the prize for douchiest entp ever. alongside niall ferguson as the douchiest isfp.

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    Based on his Antifragility Book, I would have gone with LIE actually.

    I thought very nuanced and contentful use of Te and Ni. Intuitive subtype.

    Last edited by Moonbeaux Rainfox; 11-24-2016 at 10:53 PM.

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    ESTp
    Last edited by Jake; 11-23-2016 at 07:38 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarno View Post
    Writer of the 'black swan' (just started reading it), 'fooled by randomness' and some other book I forgot.
    the other book that you forgot stupid idiot, is ofcourse 'anti fragility', his masterpiece if I say myself, but ofcourse you are entitled to think otherwise.

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