Title: WTF????
Product review: I managed to get to page 177 and cannot do it anymore. This book reads like a cocaine driven rant that continually promises deliverance to no avail. As others have commented, this book has nothing to do with mathematics or statistics, on the contrary we are fooled by the biases with which we interpret data... So mathematics is baseless as it only proves the foolishness of humanity. Taleb is therefore not human as he seems to believe he is philosophically above it all, including philosophy.The book sucks. Do yourself a favor, if you are still curious to read, then read any random sample of it on google books. You can even skip around the book after any paragraph as that is exactly how this book seems to be edited. Hmmm, makes me think about the reference he makes to monkeys pushing buttons in order write "coherent" yet random books which would, according to Taleb, with certainty yield the exact transcript of "The Iliad". This book must be a joke written by his monkey friends... Genius!!
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