Quiz: Nassim Taleb or Thomas777?

Nassim Taleb is a financial trader and writes about risk, rationality, interventionism, and social dynamics. He is an accomplished author with multiple public works and a large online following.

Thomas777 is a nameless, faceless forum poster with a sharp rhetorical wit and an online personality cult that worships him. No one has ever seen him, and in fact he disappeared off the face of the Earth some time after 2015.

Created by: Vottomkek13
  1. To whom does this quote belong? "a 'nerd' is a managerial technocrat who is incapable of thinking in terms of total systems as he is stubbornly oblivious to nuance and non-utilitarian measures of value. A nerd can only exist in a technological state that places a premium on specialization and quantity - Aquinas, for example, had nothing in common with the modern nerd; the 'nerd' is best exemplified by Robert MacNamara or Bill Gates. Nerds are enemies of philosophy, not its stewards."
  2. To whom does this quote belong? "Establishment media claims that its a moral imperative to homogenize all peoples into a world society in which nobody is bound by organic or spontaneous or customary social arrangements, nobody is particularly religious, and nobody considers their own fortunes in life or in history in any terms other than as an individual worker/consumer with discrete personal interests. It essentially calls upon everybody to adopt the perspective of an impressionable child or a labor camp denizen or (at best) a relatively well-off cosmopolitan tourist."
  3. To whom does this quote belong? "The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally."
  4. To whom does this quote belong? "IQ tests determine the ability for persons to discern patters in data and assimilate these things into meaningful structures. It doesn't really tell us anything, other than that people with extremely low IQs tend encounter terrible difficulties in adapting to modern society... "IQ" is essentially what rationalist, commerce-driven cultures have crafted to replace virtue."
  5. To whom does this quote belong? "Society doesn’t evolve by consensus, voting, majority, committees, verbose meeting, academic conferences, and polling; only a few people suffice to disproportionately move the needle."
  6. To whom does this quote belong? "I think that Russel Kirk hit the mark when he observed that Tradition is something that is above ideology...its epistemologically unique and it can only be appreciated as a linear-historical phenomenon. Humans 'need' Tradition to be fully human, in other words. The reasons why thoughtful people tend to react with such profound emotion when their Traditions are threatened, dismantled or otherwise vilified is because on some basic, level, their humanity is being affronted."
  7. To whom does this quote belong? "The only definition of rationality that I found that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is that of survival –and indeed, unlike the modern theories by psychosophasters, it maps to the classics. Anything that hinders one’s survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is deemed irrational."
  8. To whom does this quote belong? "consider that if someone has mental needs, there will be 100% correlation between performance and IQ tests. But the performance doesn’t correlate as well at higher levels, though, unaware of the effect of the nonlinearity, the psychologists will think it does.(The statistical spin, as a marketing argument, is that a person with an IQ of 70 cannot prove theorems, which is obvious for a measure of unintelligence—but they fail to reveal how many IQs of 150 are doing menial jobs)."
  9. To whom does this quote belong? "the American west hosts a mythology unto itself that entails a belief that any man, regardless of station, can strike gold out in the desert, if he's sufficiently brash, brazen, ruthless and a skilled enough hustler. Vegas was built in the middle of a literal desert and it became a magnet for America's evil and heroic archetypes - cowboys, Indians, bloodletters, badmen, sheen-suited Chicago wiseguys, their p---ographically alluring gun molls, immigrant entrepenuers with no moral compass, and grifters by trade. A component of the ''American Dream'' entails a belief that any man can be rich, concomitant with a rather crude and boyish reverence for miscreants."
  10. To whom does this quote belong? "Feminism is some weird hobby horse of disengaged rich people, in essence. It doesn't really have legs in the real world, its more of a pretext for moral posturing. One of those things nobody honestly believes yet that is essential to the civic mythology. Like Breznhev's declarations about how the planned economy produces wealth."
  11. To whom does this quote belong? "Evidence of submission is displayed by having gone through years of the ritual of depriving himself of his personal freedom for nine hours every day, punctual arrival at an office, denying himself his own schedule, and not having beaten up anyone. You have an obedient, housebroken dog."
  12. To whom does this quote belong? "People who aren't engaged in their own lives don't apprehend culture or religion or sex. They just kind of observe these things from without as curiosities. Thus, they define culture as consumption habits, sex to them is some kind of affected pose or ''gender role'', religion is a consumer choice or a kind of recreational activity like going to the movies."

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