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authorEuAndreh <eu@euandre.org>2020-10-20 05:37:53 -0300
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Article on interview: add link to archived version of cargo culting text.
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@@ -265,8 +265,9 @@ judgment and personality are required to determine the fitness of a good
candidate? Why not 2, 5, or 20 things? Why those specific 3? Why is talent
defined like that? Is it just because he found talent to be like that?
-Isn't that definitionally also [cargo-culting]? Isn't he just repeating whatever
-he found to work form him, without understanding why?
+Isn't that definitionally also
+[cargo-culting][cargo-culting][^cargo-culting-archive]? Isn't he just repeating
+whatever he found to work form him, without understanding why?
What Feynman proposes is actually the opposite:
@@ -278,6 +279,7 @@ What Slava did was just another form of cargo culting, but this was one that he
believed to work.
[cargo-culting]: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
+[^cargo-culting-archive]: [Archived version](https://web.archive.org/web/20201003090303/http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm).
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