“There’s this word that we use in poker: “resulting.” It’s a really important word. You can think about it as creating too tight a relationship between the quality of the outcome and the quality of the decision. You can’t use outcome quality as a perfe…
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Dark triad – Wikipedia
The dark triad is a subject in psychology that focuses on three personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy Use of the term “dark” implies that people possessing these traits have malevolent qualities
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“The Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect in a long line of millenarians extending back to the ancient Israelites; in their “totalitarian” demands on the individual believer the Bolsheviks are cut from the same cloth as the sixteenth-cen…
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