The Power of Mental Modeling and the Limits of AI
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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How to Make Better Decisions in Big Data
Both leaders had the same data. There was nothing hidden. It wasn't that there was any other information that one party had that another did. It was the way that they took that information and processed it. In a world of big data, we believe that the person who has more data is going to make better decisions. But here in this one instance, but it actually speaks for lots of cases where you can have the exact same data, but come to a different decision. How is that possible? It's because of how you've framed the data, how you've magnified certain elements and minimized others. Had sa britain approached the problem differently, had a different mental model,
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