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Search “Survivorship Bias” and other cognitive biases. You don’t read about the guy who started with nothing, hustled hard, ended with nothing but in a parallel
by quickthrower2 3y ago
Search “Survivorship Bias” and other cognitive biases. You don’t read about the guy who started with nothing, hustled hard, ended
with nothing but in a parallel universe could have been a billionaire.
- gwern 3y agoYou sometimes read about them if their hustling ends in a particularly messy fashion: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-... RIP Zoomer Musk.