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108 – Rudi Hoffman on How to Beat Death and Taxes

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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The Importance of Emoji in Speech Communication

A 1994 study found that people assume a person is being sarcastic when they say the food is bad. In 2002, another study asked someone to give an ambiguous sentence and estimate how much of the audience understood it. The speaker always overestimated how many people understood them and underestimated how many people misunderstood them.

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