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Cliff Asness: belief

18 Nov 2015 Conversations with Tyler Cliff Asness on Comics and Why Never to Share a Gym with Cirque du Soleil (Live at Mason)

“I’m not revealing anything that you might not know. But I think counterexamples are probably more powerful than anything else.”

— Cliff Asness

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Speaker
Cliff Asness
Attribution
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
18 Nov 2015
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Please explain. It’s a pretty good example of what happens when you don’t have it. Some of us might think it’s a more relevant example than others. I’m not revealing anything that you might not know. But I think counterexamples are probably more powerful than anything else. That counterexample of what happens when you take liberty away will be with us for a really long time. I don’t think we’re near there yet. I might be a raving lunatic but I’m not that much a raving lunatic. I wouldn’t have wished it. It wasn’t worth the cost but he’s helped the cause of liberty. Thank you, Joe. The contrarian answer. What’s the side of Ayn Rand’s philosophy that you feel is weakest?…

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