
Ep306 - Gerd Gigerenzer | How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Talks at Google
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Is There a Complexity in the Law?
I think transparency is extremely important in a society that has more and more the tendency to make everything more complex. And often this extra complexity doesn't add anything about justice or accuracy. It just is being done because people believe in the complexity illusion. These problems need complex solutions. No, we need to make it simpler. That also increases the trust of the people into the law or the trust of say doctors into a medical algorithm. Yeah. So, and the answer to it simply heuristics are often as accurate, they are transparent and also transparency allows to find out whether it's been discriminating. Because you see what the few variables are,. There can always be correlations of those variables with others
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