Gad Saad's Opinion Of Nassim Taleb

i don't have a problem with the way that you deliver things i think you and talib and james lindsay and is that the thing is that the background that you and talib both have because there is definitely some similarities in the way that you deliver your discourse online yeah that's another great question uh i think nasim and i are very good friends for several reasons one of which at least if i can speak for him uh in terms of you know i always joke that nassim thinks 99 of humanity are useless cretins that should be you know killed because they're imbeciles beyond redemption and that i am one of the few who makes it into his you're in the cut you're in the one percent i'm really in like i i think i think getting the approval of naseem might be bigger than a nobel prize right i mean i say that slightly facetiously but i think the reason for that is because he appreciates in me that i am a costly signaling guy meaning that i walk the walk i don't give a in the game right so because of that he respects that and i also respect that in him so partly because of our similar personhood when it comes to that combativeness maybe partly because of the middle eastern thing when you are my friend i will die for you right so and i won't get into specifics but i've i could tell you that when it came to at certain points him defending me for something he was willing to blow up the world to come in my defense now for many people we so for example i have other friends who naseem despises and they will say to me they can't understand why i would be friends with him right because they see him as this vile nasty but the reality is that if you're in his corner he's much more likely to fight and die for you in the trenches than those highfalutin bullshitters who would turn away when you're screaming for help and pretend that they didn't hear you so i think because of that trait uh we're simpatico on that dimension fair weather friends man no one needs any of them exactly why is it the west where these ideas are proliferating surely living standards being high should give people less to complain about not more so there are several reasons for that i mean some of it comes from the frankfurt school that kind of kicked off some of this stuff uh some of it is that you know if i am suffering every day not knowing if i'm gonna get my caloric minimal caloric you know food for the day i don't have time to pontificate about feminist glaciology so in a sense it is a measure of the decadence of the west right like it's kind of the caligula effect right when rome becomes too uh you know imbued with all of this hedonic pursuits it kind of self-implodes so i think there's a similar thing here where instead of you know feasting at the buffet of gluttony the actual food we're we're we're feasting at the gluttony of ideas because in a sense it demonstrates how well we have it in the west right but by the way that's another thing that really pisses me off because the people who the people at wellesley college who are complaining that they were misgendered should have lived tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in the morning of my childhood in lebanon where i didn't know at 10 o'clock whether at 10 05 my head would still be connected to the rest of my body maybe that's another source of indignation right when you're constantly whining when you simply don't know what else there is in the world right that is frustrating to those who have lived that right so ayan hershey ali do you know who that is yeah so ayan hershey ali should be someone that people seriously listen to because she's lived islam and yet she is a you know hitler bigot who is an islamophobe i mean if a black woman from somalia who is an ex-muslim is somebody that doesn't carry the right identity markers to speak about islam then we're lost right so i think that's another reason of my indignation and that is that boy are you sheltered when you complain about the things that you do in the west [Music]

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Length: 4min 26sec (266 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 13 2020