Silicon Valley: So you think human behavior is modifiable with interventions. Social sciences: Oh heck yes. SV: And your results replicate? SS: Mostly no, small N and low budgets. SV: But if they do replicate, you... SS: Get that next $20k grant. SV: Brb, going to rule world.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1098468853674176512 …
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To a first approximation: the papers that aren’t a blueprint to a billion dollars probably aren’t true, and the papers which are true probably are a blueprint to a billion dollars.
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The two functions of the startup ecosystem: 1) Fund a series of low stakes experiments getting folks not entirely unlike graduate assistants to chisel out a few new facts about the world 2) If those facts are true, throw arbitrarily large sum of money at it worldwide.
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Your tweet encapsulates the thesis of Shoshanna Zuboff's new book.
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