二十五

Mikhail Simkin, Scientific inquiry into poetry

The average score of over twenty two thousand people is 55.5% correct. This is little better than random guessing, which would give 50% correct. The 35 people from leading Russian universities got an average score of 55.8%.

注：這哥們?cè)O(shè)計(jì)了一個(gè)小測(cè)試，從狄更斯及和他同時(shí)代的一個(gè)爛作家的小說(shuō)里各摘了些代表性段落，讓網(wǎng)友逐條判斷這些段落是誰(shuí)寫(xiě)的，結(jié)果正確率的均值為48%，和瞎猜的結(jié)果差不多。

然后就有人批評(píng)：“小說(shuō)是一個(gè)整體，單摘出些段落沒(méi)啥好說(shuō)的。一小段只能看出作者的行文風(fēng)格，而狄更斯的牛逼在于情節(jié)和角色設(shè)計(jì)，這從摘錄段落里可看不出來(lái)?！庇谑沁@哥們又生一計(jì)，那就比較詩(shī)歌唄，詩(shī)歌不用摘錄。于是選了些普希金和一個(gè)不知名的xx科夫的詩(shī)。2萬(wàn)2千人參加了測(cè)試，平均正確率是55.5%，特別的，其中35個(gè)人來(lái)自俄羅斯頂尖大學(xué)，他們的平均正確率是55.8%。比瞎猜強(qiáng)那么一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。

結(jié)論是，要不就是人們其實(shí)沒(méi)什么鑒賞力（即讀得很少很草率），要不就是很多大師其實(shí)只是“所謂的大師”。

二十六

Robin Hanson, Advice Isn’t About Info

I had lunch with a very senior managing partner at a venture capital firm as she was stepping down from the firm to spend more time with her family following a long and successful career in that company. She commented that once she announced her retirement, not only did her colleagues behave differently toward her, no longer inviting her to meetings and seeking her advice as often, but her time was less in demand by colleagues in the high-technology and venture capital communities more generally. Her wisdom and experience hadn’t changed— the only difference was her soon-to-be-diminished control over investment resources and positions in the venture capital firm.

這就是那些退休的主任、局長(zhǎng)、行長(zhǎng)、董事長(zhǎng)們的痛苦：突然間，咯噔一下，沒(méi)人鳥(niǎo)他們了。

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亂彈：面對(duì)各種權(quán)威（知名評(píng)論家，公司里的上級(jí)），“警覺(jué)”一些、記住自己還有個(gè)腦袋很有必要啊。