
Steven Pinker on Rationality, Psychology, Language, & More
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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You Know You're the Eternal Optimist
The but the conditional probability is a lot like if then but a probabilistic version of if then. It's almost like it's not exactly the same as what they call fuzzy logic yeah and i kept coming up with reason as the slave of the passions which is why we appear to be irrational. The tragedy of the rationality commons comments are directly related to game theory where rational agents can end up worse off for their own self-interest than if they made some sacrifice of their interests.
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