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UPDATE

ARGUMENT CLOSED (2025): The argument is now closed thanks to paper by Brown, Wai, and Chabris that tried to rebut the piece below, but confirmed all of its conclusions. The piece, most recent one on IQ and relying on multi-cohort studies, unintentially showed that IQ explains almost nothing in educational attainment, occupational attainment, and …income! And that, in spite of the circularity. I did not notice the paper until 2024.

Link: medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle

Category: Statements

[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Cardiac Fibrosis and Ventricular Arrhythmia Risk in Veteran Endurance Athletes

[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Bitcoin Is an Electronic Tulip, Not a Currency

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Scaling LLMs and Why It Won’t Lead to AGI

[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan Returns to New York Times Bestseller List After 18 Years

[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb: No Evidence-Based Justification for >0.8g/kg Protein Intake

[Medium] IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)

UPDATE

[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb on ChatGPT: “A Bullshitter That Misses the Central Point”

[X] Data Hacking and the Large D small N problem

[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Problem of Induction

[X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb to Co-Teach Thick Tail Statistics at the American University of Beirut