Ideology makes you doubly likely to be mistaken. You not on… - Paul Graham

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Ideology makes you doubly likely to be mistaken. You not only receive your beliefs as a matching set, which makes it extremely unlikely that they're all correct; you also can't change any of them, or you'll seem a backslider to your peers.

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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

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