
Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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Is Entropy a Loss or a Gain?
Loss aversion is the fact that people will do out of their way to avoid a loss. People are more willing to take a risk for than gain right and again but i'm wondering if that's eminently rational for a physics region. entropy makes it much harder to do good than bad in some sense, says Daniel Conneman. He once said to me how many really good things can you imagine happening today compared with what could happen together? There's a massive asymmetry well that's exactly what is bottomless he writes.
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