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by focus2020 2187 days ago
The only thing that bugs me about him is his take on religion. He claims he is not muslim but on multiple occasions he defends Islam and also he is mildly anti Jewish. He is against Richard Dawkins stating his math is wrong. I could not find the source of the problem that Richard Dawkins made an error in calculating. If somebodycan point out to math problem preferably if the problem is in python notebook for verification,that would be great
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He's Orthodox Christian [1], but he defends all peaceful religious practice against the attacks from celebrity atheists like Dawkins and Sam Harris. But he also attacks violent religious extremists like Wahabis. I don't know about him being anti-Jewish. That doesn't sound right to me. Can you point to anything?

I also don't know about him attacking Dawkins' math; I don't know of any significant math Dawkins has ever published. You may be referring to Taleb's defence of E.O. Wilson, Nowak et al [2], which was attacked by Dawkins and Steven Pinker, without disproving the math in the paper, which Taleb claims to have verified.

[1] https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1177630356327075841

[2] https://www.facebook.com/nntaleb/posts/eo-wilson-nowak-et-al...