Brian Klaas | How To Think About An Unlimited Future Of Possibilities - Flukes, Chance, Randomness & Nassim Taleb
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The Value of Experimentation and Evolutionary Biology in Decision Making
The speaker discusses the tendency to comfortably look the other way rather than questioning the value of certain actions. They emphasize the importance of experimenting in the face of radical uncertainty, drawing from evolutionary biology's lesson of undirected experimentation. The speaker criticizes advice gurus for claiming to understand the impossible and advocating for groupthink and confirmation bias. They also highlight the value of delving into random topics and learning from diverse sources.
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