What Money Cannot Buy — LessWrong
Money can buy a lot of things, but it can't buy expertise. In fields where performance is hard to judge, simply throwing money at the problem won't g…
x What Money Cannot Buy — LessWrong Gears Which Turn The World Expertise (topic) World Modeling Curated 387 What Money Cannot Buy by johnswentworth 1st Feb 2020 4 min read 53 387 Paul Graham : The problem is, if you're not a hacker, you can't tell who the good hackers are. A similar problem explains why American cars are so ugly. I call it the design paradox. You might think that you could make your products beautiful just by hiring a great designer to design them. But if you yourself don't have good taste, how are you going to recognize a good designer? By definition you can't tell from his p
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