
Ep 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.
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The Decision Theory of Robert Pinker
In this chapter, pinker is curiously non committal about this whole decision theory thing. Nam it's difficult to tell if he actually endorses this model of decision making that is explained to us or not. So whether it is a part of rationality or not, we're kind of left in the dark about. And if it's not part of rationality, i don't know why it's part of a book on rationality. We will get there as time goes on.
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