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Nassim Taleb
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Nassim Taleb writes Stories by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Medium, a personal blog at nntaleb.medium.com about philosophy and economics. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The World in Which We Live Now”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nassim Taleb's Medium post "Local rules instead of global censorship", and commenters quote its passages on eurozone periphery countries, EU benefits and elites.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The World in Which We Live Now3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-15
- N.N.Taleb: Greece Is a Near Eastern Country: Foreword to the New Byzantines2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-10
What Hacker News says?
> The elites of those countries benefit way more from the influx of euros, some breadcrumbs are given to the people and then everyone stays under the illusion they are better off. The central bank keeps pushing money, Brussels and Berlin get happy about it until some external crisis show that the periphery countries never actually changed their ways and now are even more fragile to external shocks and even more depe…
Comment linking /lebanon-from-ponzi-to-antifragili
on “Local rules instead of global censorship”Submitted The World in Which We Live Now as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> Euro-critical countries in eastern Europe profit hugely from the EU and would never seriously consider going back to the previous state of things. The elites of those countries benefit way more from the influx of euros, some breadcrumbs are given to the people and then everyone stays under the illusion they are better off. The central bank keeps pushing money, Brussels and Berlin get happy about it until some exte…
Comment linking /lebanon-from-ponzi-to-antifragility-c9867eb71998
on “Local rules instead of global censorship”Submitted The World in Which We Live Now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Write as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strength Training Is Learning from Tail Events as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Definition of success – Nassim Taleb (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted N.N.Taleb: Greece Is a Near Eastern Country: Foreword to the New Byzantines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Greece Is a Near Eastern Country: Foreword to the New Byzantines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Book Is a Book, Not Disembodied Information as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World in Which We Live Now as a story · 1 points
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