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S27 E5: “Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most” by Steven Johnson

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The Importance of Probability Analysis in Decision Making

Google's self-driving cars constantly generate a list of bad things that can happen given the configuration of people and objects on the street. The car is doing this constant algorithmic analysis of all these potential threats, says John Sutter. "I think it's important when we reach a crossroads in our personal lives ... to run those probability analyses"

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