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An example of what Charlie Munger would have called "the power of incentives to cause rationalized, terrible behavior".
by shever73 3y ago
An example of what Charlie Munger would have called "the power of incentives to cause rationalized, terrible behavior".
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoI like that quote a lot. Incentives scale.
- mnode 3y agoIn this case perverse incentives. Check out 'How not to study a disease: the story of Alzheimer’s' (by Karl Herrup) for a perspective on why this is not at all surprising. That being said, I think it would be unfair to tarnish all of science with this brush though. There are many fields that don't suffer these problems nearly as much.