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Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Rationality Debate

I would ask the people that they be reasonable because rational, that word is taken so far as I'm concerned and it's taken in a very precise way by something that is descriptively an unstaught. So do you have any kind of hunches as to what a better normative model of rationality would be? No, I mean, I don't use the word. And I really prefer to avoid, for me, rationality is a technical term. It is rationality in the fundamental and more in, you know, in decision theory or in economics. But does that imply that the sort of rationality versus irrational debate is just not very useful? Well, there are debates that will never be resolved,

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