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13. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Median Mathematician Has More Real World Leverage Than Thematician

Politicians often fail to understand the social implications of their thought process, says John Defterios. He argues that politicians have more real world leverage than mathematicians. We're making progress in a very interesting stage where artificial intelligence may be taking work away from us, he adds. But i think there's still room for improvement and we can't afford to stop working on what we are really interested in doing.

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