Ep 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.
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The Costs of Rational Choice Are Not Trifling
Pinker admits that the theory of rational choice can't possibly apply to human beings. The perfect can be the enemy of the good, he says. Pinker: Every decision takes us into a situation in which new decisions confront us.
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