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swores on Oct 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Some advice from Jeff Bezos

That's a much more realistic cleverest person, but in terms of hypotheticals it is clearly better to be right 100% of the time than to almost immediately change your opinion the 1% of the time you start off wrong.

Shorel on Oct 19, 2012 [–]

I believe that's an error in perception that has lead us to religion and other "I'm always right" worldviews.

Actually, no, it is not better.

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