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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Feb 2017

      A lot of our inborn biases are heuristics that work most of the time but fail in edge cases.

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Feb 2017
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      People overvalue such biases. So violating them tends to be an insufficiently explored territory where you'll find good new ideas.

      3 replies 8 retweets 32 likes
    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Feb 2017
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      When I read that even animals dislike being treated unfairly, I automatically ask "How could one benefit from being treated unfairly?"

      8 replies 10 retweets 37 likes
      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Feb 2017

      There must be edge cases where you're treated unfairly yet end up net ahead, and the bias against unfairness means they'll be underpriced.

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        1. Nathan Barnett‏ @bendingfuture 23 Feb 2017
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          there seems to be a trend of successful entrepreneurs having overcome some "unfair" difficulty in life

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        1. Michael Sheeley‏ @MichaelSheeley 23 Feb 2017
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          "bias arbitrage"?

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        2. Aaron VanDevender 🔬‏ @APVanDevender 23 Feb 2017
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          Nobody likes being stabbed in the face, therefore there must be edge cases where being stabbed in the face is underpriced. 😲🗡

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        3. Santiago Tórtora‏ @lordcataplanga 23 Feb 2017
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          Surgery.

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        1. Ben Mathews‏ @CrashCodes 24 Feb 2017
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          not so edge. Think of the thief that doesn't get caught as unfairness working in their favor

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        1. Christo Logan‏ @Christoleum 23 Feb 2017
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          Are you thinking of cases like that of Jewish litigator Joe Flom as described in @gladwell's Outliers? http://www.litcharts.com/lit/outliers/chapter-5-the-three-lessons-of-joe-flom …

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        1. Boris Smus‏Verified account @borismus 23 Feb 2017
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          fairness is a goal in itself, independent of getting ahead or not. See MFT

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        1. Ramon Suarez‏Verified account @ramonsuarez 23 Feb 2017
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          employment, politics, volunteering, family...

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        1. Santiago Tórtora‏ @lordcataplanga 23 Feb 2017
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          Something like accepting unfair payments in the Ultimatum game, but in real life instead of experiments?

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        1. Daniel Pourasghar‏ @pourasghar 23 Feb 2017
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          seems like a great topic for an essay. Would love to read about some examples of this that you came across.

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        1. Spooky Banaski‏ @SpookyBanaski 23 Feb 2017
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          buy stocks where exec pay is egregious? Joel Greenblatt liked to see over-generous equity awards in his ideas - also incnt. alignment

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        1. DNLHMT‏ @dnlhmt 23 Feb 2017
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          Hence invest in black people and women

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        1. JohnyQi‏ @JohnyQi 23 Feb 2017
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          When you are treated unfairly the world is actually doing a favor to you, it pushes you to get emotionally stronger.

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        1. DNLHMT‏ @dnlhmt 23 Feb 2017
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          well duh being erroneously undervalued is unfair

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        1. Jason‏ @jcstauff 23 Feb 2017
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          regardless of which def you choose, fair is ultimately just a human concept to deal with innate inequities produced by competition.

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        1. Jason‏ @jcstauff 23 Feb 2017
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          fairness doesn't have a rigid definition. To some, it means everyone gets the same, to others it means everyone gets what they earned

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        1. David Spiro‏ @spiroD123 23 Feb 2017
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          if unfair treatment is treatment that is unfair bc it is unfair treatment to others, then there's infinite (not edge) cases

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        1. adampryor‏ @adampryor 23 Feb 2017
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          Sanitation workers?

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        1. Scott Rogers  🤔‏ @scottrogers 23 Feb 2017
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          - Susan J. Fowler was treated unfairly at Uber & now she will be known as the person who held the Unicorn accountable

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        1. Tom Wilson‏ @MuseHill 23 Feb 2017
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          The most successful long-term strategies for the Prisoner's Dilemma are the forgiving ones (e.g. tit for two tats).

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