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@Edent@mastodon.social Taleb's never really been into practicalities - even the flagship "black swan" event he made so much of, the 2008-> financial crash, was absolutely not unforseeable. There had been plenty of warnings and naysayers going all the way back to the repeal of Glass-Seagall, they just got ignored.

Taleb makes bank on spooking people though, and subsequently did a lengthly stint in stirring up dangerous conspiracy theories around genetic engineering and crop science researchers - he's in it for the fearful fandom. Not the anti-collapse expert we need.