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Steven Pinker: AI in the Age of Reason

Lex Fridman Podcast

CHAPTER

Fear, Worry, Concern, Planning

Human effort is not well calebrated against risk in that a perception of risk, and hence fear, is driven by imaginability, not by data. We misallicate vast amounts of resources to avoiding terrorism, which kills on average, about six americans a year. And even risks that are, ah, not here, but are plausible enough to worry about, like pandemics receive far too little attention.

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