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270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli)

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Human Nature That Is Hard to Tame?

Human nature is hard to tame. Sometimes people end up with a lot of strength and power, and sometimes they have their own perverse incentives that it's really hard to get around. People like puton and trump are good at finding the weaknesses in the system. They just say the stupidst craziest, most irrational things. But they know the boss is listening, right? And andd if they don't appease the boss, then they're goingt not going to have his support. That goes a long way to explaining irrationality. How can anybody possibly believe cuanon? Some significant, too digit number of percentage of republicans say they think there could be something to this claimthat

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