Cogito, Ergo Sumana for 2006 November 1 (entry 0)

# (1) 01 Nov 2006, 11:30AM EST: Decision Theories: Avoiding Projects Pursued By Morons 101:

There is much made by people who long for the days of their fourth form debating society about the fallacy of "argumentum ad hominem". There is, as I have mentioned in the past, no fancy Latin term for the fallacy of "giving known liars the benefit of the doubt", but it is in my view a much greater source of avoidable error in the world. Audit is meant to protect us from this, which is why audit is so important.

Avoiding hiring morons:

If the basic concepts aren't so easy that you don't even have to think about them, you're not going to get the big concepts....

You see, if you can't whiz through the easy stuff at 100 m.p.h., you're never gonna get the advanced stuff.

Comments:

Posted by jacob at 02 Nov 2006, 01:09AM

"Everything I Know I Learned At A Very Expensive University"! Hahaha.