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Or, survivor bias (literally)

• Forge36 7y ago
  You can have highly motivated people get themselves killed. Just because burning the ships produced motivation doesn't mean you'll have victory
• microtherion 7y ago
  This. Specifically, the mention of Caesar reminded me of the beginning of the Gallic wars, when the Helvetii tried something similar: http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.1.1.html http://classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.1.1.html > When they thought that they were at length prepared for this undertaking, they set fire to all their towns, in number about twelve - to their villages about four hundred - and to the private dwellings that remained; they burn up all the corn, except what they intend to carry with them; that after destroying the hope of a return home, they might be the more ready for undergoing all dangers. Spoiler: It did not work out so great for them.
• poiuyt098 7y ago
  literally all life is based on survivor bias
  • ben_w 7y ago
    While this is true, it’s probably a bad idea to rely on human reproductive evolution when strategising a battle.