Oligopsony comments on Explicit and tacit rationality - Less Wrong

40 Post author: lukeprog 09 April 2013 11:33PM

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Comment author: atucker 10 April 2013 02:34:27AM *  13 points [-]

When evaluating the relationship between success and rationality it seems worth keeping in mind survivorship bias.

An interesting case is that Will Smith seems likely to be explicitly rational in a way that other people in entertainment don't talk about -- he'll plan and reflect on various movie-related strategies so that he can get progressively better roles and box office receipts.

For instance, before he started acting in movies, he and his agent thought about what top-grossing movies all had in common, and then he focused on getting roles in those kinds of movies.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1689234,00.html

Comment author: MrMind 10 April 2013 09:01:16AM 7 points [-]

An interesting case is that Will Smith seems likely to be explicitly rational in a way that other people in entertainment don't talk about

In the same venue, I've been impressed by Greene's account of 50 Cent he made in the book "The 50th law". If that's really 50's way of thinking, it's brutally rational and impressively strategical.