One person cannot be possibly inferior to another unless he himself starts by making a comparison.

A question rarely aims at getting an answer; it is the answer.

The triplet. Three bankruptcies that would save the world from fragility: 1) Goldman Sachs, 2) Harvard University, 3) the New York Times.

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NNT has posted some recent papers including a link to the downloadable 217 page Technical Works. Not sure how long this will be up, it seem to be related to a class he’s teaching.

Papers

The detection heuristic

Errors as counterfactuals

Class Material

Technical Works (complete book )

I wonder how many people would seek excessive wealth if it did not carry a measure of *status* with it.