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		joe_the_user on Feb 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Be careful of who you work with Indeed, Suppose every single person adopted the "I only want to play with a people better than me" approach? Well, then those people you want to play/program/etc with... they don't want to play with you! Ad-finitum till you get Grouch's "I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member"... (there's lots of "interesting" game-theory/mating-theory describing these situations but I still don't find them appealing)

Bootvis on Feb 25, 2011 [–]

Skill isn't one dimensional. If I'm better at X and my colleague is better at Y we can both learn from someone 'smarter' and everybody is clearly better of by cooperating.

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