Taleb vs Asberger’s Syndrome Sorts

Nassim Taleb has added an update to his recent Black Swan-centric comment about Asperger’s Syndrome and risk:

Note that the very same people who attack me, on grounds of political correctness, for discussing Asperger as a condition not compatible with risk-bearing, and its dangers to society, would be opposed to using a person with highly impaired eyesight as the driver of a school bus. All I am saying is that just as I read Milton, Homer, Taha Husain, and Borges (who were blind) but would prefer to not have them drive me on the A-4 motorway, I elect to use tools made by engineers but prefer to have society’s risks managed by someone who is not affected with risk-blindness.

Hell hath no fury like a health lobby group whose syndrome of choice has been appropriated for metaphorical purposes.

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