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That isn’t how I mean it at all. When I say ‘want,’ I am not speaking of preference or passing desire. I am speaking of a life-and-death sort of want.

Direct Truth - Uncompromising, Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life

Kapil Gupta

“At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

Tren Griffin - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

2017, Columbia University Press

How do and should we form and change opinions? Logic tells us to avoid inconsistencies and incoherences. Language tells us to attend to how meaning is inferred from ambiguous language. Decision theory says to distinguish values from fact opinion, and says exactly how decisions should respond to these. Regarding fact opinion, Bayesian theory says to distinguish priors from likelihoods, and says exactly how fact opinion should respond to evidence.

Overcoming Bias : Standard Biases

Robin Hanson

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