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A comment on Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017).

Re:Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017) by michaelt on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:06AM (#21657805)
> The pervasiveness of these psychological strategies shows that, whether each case was because of a genius decision or an accident of history, they conferred a substantial advantage to their practitioners.

Of course if Cortés burned all his ships then his entire force was wiped out, would news have reached home? And if it did reach home, would the news of crushing defeat and incompetent leadership have been hushed up?

So I'm not sure I consider this 'substantial advantage' proven.

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Re:Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (2017) by PeterisP on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:17PM (#21659915)
Cortes burned all the ships except one, so some communication was possible, but retreating or evacuating the majority of troops was not.
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