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Decision Making
If a person stands little chance of ever being wealthy, perhaps playing the lottery is a rational decision.
"You gotta know when to fold 'em."
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
Human thinking is antiquated.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
With a record-setting $1.9 billion jackpot, you'd think it's a no-brainer to buy a Powerball ticket. But the math truly shows otherwise.
"The digital HQ - the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration - actually became more important than the physical HQ."
"Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks... by up to 200 to 1."
The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
Million Stories
Gradualism rejects the idea of a "bright line" in the abortion debate.
When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as "analysis paralysis." Why? Isn't choice a good thing?
Aristotle's ancient virtues play a vital role in today's war.
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.
John Templeton Foundation
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.
OCD and addiction may result in part from improper “reward” pathways in the brain. Ultrasound can disrupt those pathways.
Memory errors may actually indicate a way in which the human cognitive system is “optimal” or “rational.”
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
If we’re going to open major workplaces, we have to be ready for this enormous information gap. When it comes to knowing your medical status, the ideal scenario is to […]