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Ep: 99 David Deutsch‘s ”The Beginning of Infinity” - a retrospective in 99 minutes

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The No-Dirty Axis

Arrow: Uncontroversial axioms are also inconsistent logically with one another. This is a deep problem, a fatal blow to the idea that decision making can always be a perfectly logical exercise. So what do we do? Do we just give up unlogic? No. We use our creativity as people to invent a better theory or policy. When there are options before you, the only rational thing to do is to criticise them in the hope that all but one of them are refuted. Truly objective decision making more resembles objective science.

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