Taleb's change on Bitcoin in 2021 was much harder to bear than any of the crashes. I remember reading his Bitcoin "black paper" trying to figure out what I'd missed, but instead made me realise how poor his arguments were.

Seeing him repeat the same nonsense years later with that smug look of his reminds me of the loss of him as an important intellect. I can no longer engage with his other views since I now know how dishonest (probably even with himself) he can be when he simply doesn't like the people associated with an idea.

It was a real "kill your heroes" moment.