How is it great? How would you use this "heuristic"?
I hadn't read your comment before I posted this. I assumed it meant what the terms usually mean, and lacked moldbuggerian semantics. In that sense, it would be a warning against rooting for the (usual) underdog, which is certainly a bias I've found myself wandering into in the past.
In retrospect I was somewhat silly for assuming Moldbug would use a word to mean what it actually means.
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