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someuser484848
9mo ago
I see what you mean - it wasn't intended to be a parallel to mechanical calculators. However, the title implies that they were a trick - otherwise why is the "confidence trick" 400 years old? I feel like this kind of imprecis
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someuser484848
9mo ago
What? The comparison to the confidence trick from 400 years ago already stops at the second point? Why call this article that way if you are not going to bring up any parallels beyond... the extremely weak link of "building trust"