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Robin Hanson: How Global Elites Manufactured Stagnation and How We Escape

From the New World

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The Project Lead's Favorite Explanation

project leads would rather have a more believable excuse than actually get more advanced warning about failure. The truth of the matter is, managers are politicians to a larger degree than they'd like to admit. They don't really want to have those projects be at the whim of some fluctuating estimate they can't control. There's going to be estimates that influence their projects. So they're not actually that interested in uo detailed information about which things are more likely to succeed or fail.

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