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I'm not even 30 and I was told in a reply to a comment where I suggested a research paper from the 70s, "This is what's wrong with you old people, you just want us to read all of this irrelevant stuff".

The irony is the replier was 10 years older than me. So the age discrimination bias is so prevalent even older people buy into it.

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Yeesh, that’s a doubly-stupid comment...thinking not only that “old people” must be wrong but that “old papers” must be irrelevant.

Só true. Usually, paraphrasing taleb here, the "old papers" are more important. They resisted the test of time, and the ones that are still talked about (survivors) are the most relevant, and better insights. While the thousands of papers that appear every year, most of them will be irrelevant.

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