Time for another round of tweets.
Except Mr. Arab man, he never publicly opposed Polio vaccines (I think Balaji is wrong about almost everything, especially crypto, but let’s not put words in his mouth):
So, apparently steroids are OK, but not polio vaccines. Same incompatibility as w/libertarian Putinism.
Granted Balaji has discernment issues; the question is whether bitcoin is a magnet for incoherent people, if the delirium is a product of 0 interest rates, or something else. https://t.co/BBJc73MCEd
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 25, 2023
Also, this is a false equivalence. The Polio vaccine actually stopped the spread of Polio, as intended, but the Covid vaccines didn’t stop Covid as promised by the media and scientists at the time. Vaccinated people continued to spread and become sick from Covid. Of course, someone can make the argument that the vaccines lessen the likelihood of severe complications of Covid, and maybe that is true, but categorically speaking, it’s still not in the same league of effectiveness as childhood vaccines. Or in other words, the Covid vaccine was just a glorified influenza vaccine.
This did not age so well:
Prigozhin's training is 9 y in a Soviet prison, running a ring of thieves as a teenager. He sat in the front line, like earlier time warriors.
By comparison, Putin is a poseur working on his image, like Twitter gym bros.
Russians can detect who's real & who's not.
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See my… pic.twitter.com/gDONNNwbVt— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) June 24, 2023
A poseur compared to what? This?
