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the essay is about his unacceptable behaviour on twitter. you will have to wait for publication to get the main course on this, folks.
but here is the blurb:
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Taleb, the tweeter, is a bullying, cowardly, bullshitting charlatan.
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then he pops up somewhere else and does it again.
9/n
but because Taleb, the writer, is brilliant. that's the opportunity cost of Taleb, the tweeter.
10/n
but I can prove he is full of shit. I can prove it.
on 8 different topics.
11/n
I'm not an expert in that many things, but i know and i can prove that when he wades into these, he is full of shit.
12/n
but that isn't even the best bit. part of the essay is a prediction of how he will react which I will post as a cryptographic hash. if it turns out I am absolutely right, I will post the preimage at a later date.
13/n
I am already winning. that's why he is shitting himself.
I guarantee it, he doesn't know what to do. does he try to work out who I am? does he try to figure out my motives? does he slander me? does he delete tweets? which tweets?
14/n
I wasn't going to go live with this for a very long time anyway because he is doing incredible work wrt the coronavirus.
to stop shitting on each other for just a moment ...
15/n
normally, he eschews civil discourse and alienates everybody involved. In a deadly pandemic, there is no time for civil discourse.
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but you know what? maybe I'll wait even longer. maybe I'll make him sweat.
maybe I will post the hash and timestamp it right now so the predictions are live even though the essay is not?
18/n
do you think he's looking?
I think he's looking.
19/n
shit just got real. watch this space.
FINITO.