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Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings
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Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings is a personal blog at unpleasantfacts.com about economics and philosophy. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Information Hazards in Career and Life”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its critiques of Nassim Taleb's work, including the argument that Taleb did not predict the 2008 crisis even though his Black Swan book is about unpredictable events.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Not really facts... more like loosely postulated theories presented with overconfidence
Most-linked posts?
- Information Hazards in Career and Life3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-15
What Hacker News says?
Umm..ok. But the point of Black Swan is that certain are unpredictable. Yet plenty of people saw the crisis coming [2,3]. Taleb was not one of them - please see [0] If you are a Taleb fan (or just curious), check out this critique of his work: [0] http://quixoticfinance.com/tag/nassim-taleb/ [1] http://unpleasantfacts.com/falken-on-taleb People who actually predicted the crisis [2] http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Tra…
Comment linking /falken-on-taleb
on “Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2013: Trendspotting in asset markets”Submitted The More Fungible Worker as a story · 92 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rent Seekers Fighting Back as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some 2020 Predictions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10,000 Hours of Non-Deliberate Practice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Information Hazards in Career and Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Information Hazards in Career and Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Information Hazards in Career and Life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Underestimating Exponential Growth as a story · 1 points
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