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Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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How to Validate a Theory

Sometimes you do want to combine multiple theories. But I think that a really useful step is to check whether in fact your new theory does explain everything first. People are often too inclined to jump to behavioral economics, which is a much less predictive theory, much too quickly. And they should have started out by like checking which things actually needed to be explained.

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