{"id":9098,"date":"2012-12-31T05:49:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/31\/nassim-talebs-argument-for-banning-semi-automatic-weapons\/"},"modified":"2012-12-31T05:49:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:49:37","slug":"nassim-talebs-argument-for-banning-semi-automatic-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/31\/nassim-talebs-argument-for-banning-semi-automatic-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb&#8217;s Argument for Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Just over the transom an e-mail from someone who wants me to review Nassim Taleb&#39;s latest book.&#0160; So I asked Mr. Google to tell me who this Taleb fellow is and he referred me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nassim-talebs-super-simple-argument-for-banning-semi-automatic-and-automatic-weapons-2012-12\" target=\"_self\">Nassim Taleb&#39;s Super-Simple Argument for Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons<\/a>.&#0160; After reading this incoherent Facebook posting of his, I decided that time spent reading anything further by&#0160;Taleb would probably be wasted.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Beware of wasting time on the latest stuff.&#0160; What is hot now will be forgotten tomorrow.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/05\/leo-strauss-on-reading-and-writing.html\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is some good advice from Leo Strauss on reading and writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">UPDATE (1\/2):&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/dec\/02\/antifragile-nassim-nicholas-taleb-review\" target=\"_self\">This parody<\/a> further dissuades me from reading Taleb.&#0160; There is a strong temptation to want to be be up on all the latest stuff. But isn&#39;t it foolish to succumb to this temptation if there are great books you have never cracked?&#0160; Life is short. Spend it well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over the transom an e-mail from someone who wants me to review Nassim Taleb&#39;s latest book.&#0160; So I asked Mr. Google to tell me who this Taleb fellow is and he referred me to Nassim Taleb&#39;s Super-Simple Argument for Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons.&#0160; After reading this incoherent Facebook posting of his, I decided that time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/31\/nassim-talebs-argument-for-banning-semi-automatic-weapons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nassim Taleb&#8217;s Argument for Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,389,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-bibliophilia","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}