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Re:Don't Feed the Thought Leaders by zimpenfish on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:23AM (#27470294)
Technically, I suppose, it was Archilochus: "The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one great thing."

Tetlock seems to have a slightly different interpretation to Berlin - (paraphrased from [1]) "hedgehogs have one grand theory; foxes are skeptical about grand theories".

[1] https://longnow.org/seminars/02007/jan/26/why-foxes-are-bett...

Re:Don't Feed the Thought Leaders by unhammer on Friday June 11, 2021 @04:01AM (#27470510)
I was immediately reminded of the fable of the Fox and the Cat (in which the Cat wins because following its one heuristic takes no time while the Fox has to deliberate to find the best of its many smart solutions – and the dogs are coming fast). Apparently the tales are related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Cat_(fable)#Th...

(while Aesop's https://aesopsfables.org/F89_The-Fox-and-the-Hedgehog.html is completely unrelated, though also interesting!)