I think this is a sound, critical review of the Black Swan & Taleb in general. Funnily enough, the criticisms of him are more relevant/prominent now than nearly a decade ago when this was written.
Great review, thanks for posting this. To anyone considering reading the book I would recommend this article instead. I quit Black Swan part way through because, like the talk quoted above, it was long on invective, but seemed short on verifiable predections or generalizable methods. I just couldn't make it through the trolling...