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moldbug on April 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why nations fail

Complexity is one invariant in Occam's butterknife. From the butterknife's point of view, the razor is always too simple to be true...

ktizo on April 2, 2012 [–]

Well done. Now here's a biscuit.

And do please stop waving around the razor and the butterknife, you'll only do yourself another mischief.

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