[baron_harkonnen]

It's worth noting that Clayton has a much more thorough, mathematical response to Taleb's paper (written back in November): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tQj4ZGja6jKADJGiFj-dcQAirWo...

Since Taleb delights in make his mathematical writing as opaque as possible, it's a useful read in just to know exactly the claims that Taleb is making in his paper.

[thanatropism]

By that link's characterization Taleb's argument is pure fluff.