
Ep 130: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Ch 6 ”Risk and Reward” (Rational Choice & Expected Utility). Analysis.
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How to Make a Creative Decision in a Real Life Situation
In the movie sully, captain sullenburger in two thousand and nine lost both of his engines on his air bus when they flew through a flock of birds after taking off out of new york. This was unprecedented. He could have chosen to try to return to the airport from which he had taken off from or, in fact, tried to land at another nearby airport. But having not encountered this problem ever before, nor had anyone else encountered this particular ever before, he needed to make up his mind. It took him 35 seconds to figure out what to do. And so sally, the captain, determined, after 35 seconds, that the only viuable option was to
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