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#424 - Steven Pinker - The Problem With Trying To Be Rational
Modern Wisdom
Algorithms to Live By
I think o goalis is to have sufficient thinking that you can make your decisions appropriately, but not so much that it slows you down. Because i definitely have some friends, and ave worked with some people as well, who are are overthinkers. That make me look like i'm the most rash playboy in town. Yes, no, ad that isn't an important point. It's sometimes called, in the literature, bounded rationality, from herbert simon,. And the benefit of choosing the optimal decision always has to be trade it off against the costs of the actual reasoning. You've got to at some point act on the information you have, knowing that you're taking
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