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#155 — Mental Models

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How Do You Think About Decision Making?

A lot of life is sort of optimized for financial maximization. But i don't agree with thatt. I think it's actually good a lot of margin of safety, i'm in terms of your financial position. Interest rates aren't always going to be maybe they are. Ifyou want to look out into the future, we could have a situation where we have ten or 20 % interest rates. Again, i don't want to go back to zero. When i'm making decisions on finances, it's not necessarily just optimizing the short term. It's optimizing over a wide riety of outcomes.

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