Emile comments on September 2012 Media Thread - Less Wrong

1 Post author: RobertLumley 04 September 2012 06:46PM

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Comment author: Emile 06 September 2012 08:01:07AM 0 points [-]

Sadly, the book is typical example of the Malcolm Gladwell school of writing, with a mix of some research, wide extrapolations and the author's ideas all mixed up.

I agree that's an unfortunate tendancy; I'm currently reading Nassim Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" and it has a bit of the same problem.

Comment author: djcb 07 September 2012 09:39:31AM 1 point [-]

I wouldn't say Taleb is part of the MGSoW though. Taleb has some good points, the biggest obstacle I have with enjoying his books is the author's pretentiousness.