Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the Game

"In the previous discussion on Skin in the Game, I spoke about people being morally calibrated, most people. Everybody is morally calibrated, you see?

Removing the tail risk, preventing people from coming back if they inflict a lot of risk on others. Like, for example, warriors. Every warrior--traditionally, society has--we are what we are today because warriors are in battle. So, if you are complete, uncontrollable warmongers like many people in Washington today or some journalists, many think that[?] people, you would end up dying in battle, and these people don't die in battle."

Nassim Taleb Slams "These Virtue-Signaling Open-Borders Imbeciles" In 3 Short Tweets

via ZeroHedge

What intellectuals don't get about MIGRATION is the ethical notion of SYMMETRY:

OPEN BORDERS work if and only if the number of pple who want to go from EU/US to Africa/LatinAmer equals Africans/Latin Amer who want to move to EU/US

Silver Rule in #SkinInTheGame

Gabish?

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 30, 2018

3) As a Christian Lebanese, saw the nightmare of uncontrolled immigration of Palestinians which caused the the civil war.
& as a part-time resident of N. Lebanon, I am seeing the effect of Syrian migration on the place.

So I despise these virtue-signaling open-borders imbeciles.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) July 1, 2018