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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism “Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that pe
by srcreigh 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
“Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names.”
- yieldcrv 3y agoor change their name to be on brand and disassociate from their unremarkable upbringing?
- xattt 3y agoInteresting, because a Google search doesn’t bring up his name until about 2019. I would assume the original name would be captured on a university convocation program PDF within the last decade or two.
- amelius 3y agoI often see this on news items, but at some point I realized that these names could have been semi-jokingly made up by the video editors who simply didn't have a name to put in the clip (or perhaps they used a placeholder name that never got fixed).
- ultrasounder 3y agoYup. Sam Bankman-Fried. His middle name was his chosen avocation.
- sph 3y agoHis vocation, immediately followed by his dramatic downfall.