Viral Truths and the Mouthpieces of Unreality

Don't Test, Don't Tell, Ben Hunt

Body Count, Ben Hunt

The Industrially Necessary Doctor Tedros, Ben Hunt

The Fall of Wuhan, Ben Hunt

The Non-Linearity of Need, Ben Hunt

To Save Everything, Click Here, Evgeny Morozov

The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Life and Fate, Vassily Grossman



A Tale Of Two Talebs

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Game Of Thrones, George R.R. Martin

The Wire, David Simon

The Waste Land and Other Poems, T.S. Eliot

The Incerto, Nassim Taleb

The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

JESUS IS KING, Kanye West
 
Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter

Silicon Valley, Mike Judge

Set Theory, Thomas Jech

Waste Paper, H.P. Lovecraft

Scarlet and Black, Stendhal

Undercover, Dimitar Mitovski / Под Прикритие, Димитър Митовски

The Graphic Work, M.C. Escher

Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe

Killin' Them Softly, Dave Chappelle

The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous

Money: Free and Unfree, George Selgin

Social Capital in Silicon Valley, Alex Danco

The Bitcoin Lightning Network, Joseph Poon, Thaddeus Dryja

The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman

Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos

On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt

Selected Poems and Prose, Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Ergodicity Problem in Economics, Ole Peters

Ergodicity Economics, Ole Peters, Alexander Adamou

The Logic of Risk Taking, Nassim Taleb

Collected Poems and Translations, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Metalogic, Geoffrey Hunter

On the Statistical Differences between Binary Forecasts and Real World Payoffs, Nassim Taleb

Evaluating Gambles Using Dynamics, Ole Peters, Murray Gell-Mann
 
Leverage Efficiency, Ole Peters, Alex Adamou
 
Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) to Reduce COVID19 Mortality and Healthcare Demand, Ferguson et al.

Review of Ferguson et al "Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions ...", Chen Shen, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Nassim Taleb

Löb's Theorem, Martin Löb

Politics and the English Language, George Orwell

Naive Probabilism, Harry Crane

The Unsettling of America, Wendell Barry

Men in Dark Times, Hannah Arendt

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Alfred Jay Nock

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology, Nicholas Shackel

All In All, Another Brick In The Motte, Scott Alexander

The Case Against Public Science, Terrence Kealey

As We May Think, Vannevar Bush

Tiger King, Eric Goode, Rebecca Chaiklin​

The Undefinability Theorem, Alfred Tarski

Why Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the Ideal Public Thinker for the Age of Trump, Steven Poole

How Do You Like We Now, Matt Levine

Dynamics of Complex Systems, Yaneer Bar-Yam

Systemic Risk of Pandemic Via Novel Pathogens - Coronavirus: A Note, Joseph Norman, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and Nassim Taleb

Taleb Mishandles Fragility, Eric Falkenstein

Smear Campaign Operators, Nassim Taleb

Unenumerated, Nick Szabo

The Dao of Capital, Mark Spitznagel

Blowing Up, Malcolm Gladwell

Risk Mitigation, Universa Investments 

Hofstadter's Law, Douglas Hofstadter

Glasgow Kiss, Wiktionary

Quantum Godwin's Law, Michalis Skotiniotis, Andreas Winter 

The Incompleteness Theorems and "Gödel Sentences", Kurt Gödel


This Is Not Capitalism

Shelling Out, Nick Szabo

The Stories We Tell About Money, Andreas Antonopoulos

The Theory of Money and Credit, Ludwig von Mises

The Ethics of Money Production, Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Democratic Domestic Product, Ole Peters

The Growth Illusion, Sacha Meyers

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure, John Allison

The Icarus Moment, Ben Hunt

The Three Body Problem, Ben Hunt

This is Water, Ben Hunt

Enders Game, Parker Lewis

Risk Mitigation, Universa Investments 


The Coronavirus: Exacerbated By Cultural Pathology

Extraordinary Measures, Major General Mutafchiyski / Извънредни мерки, ген. Мутафчийски

We Must All Do Everything In Our Power To Protect Lives, Matt Hancock

Government Set To Quarantine Elderly and Tell Over-70s: Stay At Home, Robert Peston


Panic, Nonchalance, Precaution, and Responsibility 

War is an Appropriate Analogy, Richard Hatchett

Don't Test, Don't Tell, Ben Hunt

Leaked Coronavirus Plan to Quarantine 16m Sparks Chaos in Italy, Angela Giuffrida, Lorenzo Tondo

Email crash impeded HHS response to coronavirus, Dan Diamond

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now, Thomas Pueyo
 
The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb


The Coronavirus: On Risk And Idiots

Coronavirus Panic Caused By Probability Neglect, Cass Sunstein

In Europe, Fear Spreads Faster Than the Coronavirus Itself, Megan Specia, Constant Méheut, Christopher F. Schuetze

“No handshakes, please”: The Tech Industry is Terrified of the Coronavirus, Shirin Ghaffary

Nudge, Cass Suntein, Richard Thaler

On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt

What You Can't Say, Paul Graham

Coronavirus ‘Hits All the Hot Buttons’ for How We Misjudge Risk, Max Fisher


The Complex Markets Hypothesis

An Introduction to the Efficient Markets Hypothesis for Bitcoiners, Nic Carter

Adaptive Markets, Andrew Lo

The (Mis)Behvaiour of Markets, Benoit Mandelbroit, Richard Hudson

The Alchemy of Finance, George Soros

Principles of Economics, Karl Menger

The Microfoundations of Discounting, Alexander T. I. Adamou, Yonatan Berman, Diomides P. Mavroyiannis, Ole B. Peters

Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit, Frank Knight

Startups and Uncertainty, Jerry Neumann

A Century of Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit, Ross Emmett

Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb

The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb

Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?, Raghuram Rajan

Bounded Rationality, Gerd Gigerenzer, Reinhard Selten

The Heuristics Revolution: Rethinking the Role of Uncertainty in Finance, Gerd Gigerenzer

The Bias Bias in Behavioral Economics, Gerd Gigerenzer

Behavioral Economics' Latest Bias: Seeing Bias Wherever It Looks, Brandon Kochkodin

The Dichotomy of Behavioural Economics, Gerd Gigerenzer, Nassim Taleb

Competition and Entrepreneurship, Israel Kirzner

Zero to One, Peter Thiel

Complexity, Mitchell Waldrop

The Economy As An Evolving Complex System, Philip Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, David Pines

Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress, Bela Nagy, Doyne Farmer, Quan Bui, Jessika Trancik

MDMA, Scott Galloway

Complexity Economics, Brian Arthur

Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos

The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki

The Use of Knowledge in Society, Friedrich Hayek

Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability, Nick Szabo

The Global Economy as an Adaptive Process, John Holland

Noise, Fischer Black

The Ergodicity Problem in Economics, Ole Peters

Interview with Yakov Sinai, Martin Raussen, Christian Skau

Leverage Efficiency, Ole Peters, Alexander Adamou

The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis, Andrew Lo

The Nature of Technology, Brian Arthur

How the Finance Gurus Get Risk All Wrong, Benoit Mandelbroit, Nassim Taleb


A Blue Sky Vision For Social Media

Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It?, Sarah Jeong

How the Biggest Decentralised Social Network is Dealing with its Nazi Problem, Adi Robertson

Gab, Mastodon And The Challenges Of Content Moderation On A More Distributed Social Network, Mike Masnick

ActivityPub: Past, Present, Future, Christopher Lemmer Webber

Twitter Wants To Decentralize, but Decentralized Social Network Creators Don’t Trust It, Adi Robsterson

A Lockean Theory of Digital Property, Elaine Ou

How Bitcoin Can Protect Free Speech In A Digital Age, Alex Gladstein

Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech, Mike Masnick

Bitcoin Becomes the Flag of Technology, Balaji Srinivasan


Elusive Symmetries

Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs, Jill Carlson


Cargo Cult Math

Revisiting Basic Assumptions about Risk, Reward, and Optimal Portfolios, Michael Mauboussin, Ole Peters

Ergodicity Economics, Ole Peters, Alexander Adamou

The Logic of Risk Taking, Nassim Taleb

On Bullshit, Harry Frankfurt

The Cult of Statistical Significance, Stephen Ziliak, Deirdre McCloskey

Other People's Money, John Kay

Pioneering Portfolio Management, David Swensen

The Fatal Conceit, Friedrich Hayek

Scale, Geoffrey West

Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs, Jill Carlson


Towards a Free and Open Internet

Here's How We Can Break Up Big Tech, Elizabeth Warren

It's Time to Break Up Facebook, Chris Hughes

Tech Giants Draw Fire in Congress, Ryan Tracy

Justice Department to Open Broad, New Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies, Brent Kendall

Who Owns the Future?, Jaron Lanier

To Save Everything Click Here, Evgeny Morozov

Code 2.0, Lawrence Lessig

The Man Who Stood Up To Facebook, Aarti Shahani

Gab, the Social Network Used by the Pittsburgh Suspect, Has Been Taken Offline, Ivana Kottasová, Sara Ashley O'Brien

The Nazi-Free Alternative to Twitter Is Now Home to the Biggest Far Right Social Network, Ben Makuch

F.T.C. Approves Facebook Fine of About $5 Billion, Cecilia Kang

The US government is fining Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations, and Wall Street thinks that’s great news, Peter Kafka


Money, Banking, Bitcoin, Libra

How to Scale Bitcoin (Without Changing a Thing), Nic Carter

Polkadot, Gavin Wood

Libra White Paper

Facebook Announces Libra, Bill Ottman Discusses Implications on Crypto, Bill Ottman

"Embarrassing And Damaging" Zuckerberg IMs Confirmed By Zuckerberg, The New Yorker, Nicholas Carlson

Libre Not Libra, Andreas Antonopoulos


We Will All Be Banned

YouTube Declines to Ban Comic Over Homophobic Jokes. Here's Why That's a Good Thing, Katie Herzog

The #VoxAdpocalypse is coming for YOU!, Stephen Crowder

YouTube Will Let Bigot Monetize if He Removes Link to Homophobic Merch, Josh Constine

YouTube May Allow Hate Speech if it’s Part of a Larger Argument. Yikes, Aja Romano

Muslim Rape In UK Exposed by Toni Bugle, Stephen Crowder

The Truth About Stephen Crowder, Blaire White

Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice, James Lindsay, Mike Nayna

Why Software is Eating the World, Marc Andreessen


On Prediction Markets And Blockchains

How to Scale Bitcoin (Without Changing a Thing), Nic Carter

The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki

The Use of Knowledge in Society, Friedrich Hayek

Competition a a Discovery Procedure, Friedrich Hayek

A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit, Alex Tabarrok

The Fall Of Intrade And The Business Of Betting On Real Life, Andrew Rice

Augur, Jack Peterson, Joseph Krug, Micah Zoltu, Austin K. Williams, Stephanie Alexander

Idea Futures [WIRED], Robin Hanson

Idea Futures [Webpage], Robin Hanson

Interpreting the Predictions of Prediction Markets, Charles Manski

Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities, Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz


After Academia

PART ONE: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying & the Evergreen Equity Council, Mike Nayna

Cambridge Capitulates to the Mob and Fires a Young Scholar, Claire Lehmann

Parkinson's Law, Cyril Northcote Parkinson 

The Thiel Fellowship, Peter Thiel

EY: Firm Says it Will Not Longer Consider Degrees or A-level Results When Assessing Employees, Richard Garner


Game Of Thrones Is Story Porn

The Battle of Winterfell: A Tactical Analysis, Angry Staff Officer [WIRED]