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> But I think people have a survivorship bias (we remember the good examples over the bad ones)

Exactly! Survivorship bias is great, we get to only pick the examples that we know were good enough to survive! Why on earth would we want to have a truly random sample that gave us a whole bunch of terrible icons we'll ditch within 3 years?



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