Prefer Algorithms

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prefer algorithms

There are so many reasons why your brain is biased that if there exist an algorithm to decide, it will very likely be better in average than me.

Unfortunately, even though people might understand this, there is a high social cost in applying this decision method.

Do we really want to make good decisions?

Notes linking here

• Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice
• failure to disagree
• we should prefer algorithms, but people don’t like them

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