Nassim Taleb is dense, but not in the way you mean...New Yorker-level hand-wavy, extreme generalizations, OMG the horror of how stupid everyone else is...but if you can get past the pompous jackassery it is true there is much to be learned from him.
As far as I could tell this wasn't done as some kind of meta-commentary on anecdotes - just a massive lack of self-awareness