Quotes About Decision-making

Many neo-liberal economists and political scientists argue that it is best to leave all the important decisions in the hands of the free market. They thereby give politicians the perfect excuse for inaction and ignorance, which are reinterpreted as profound wisdom. Politicians find it convenient to believe that the reason they don't understand the world is that they need not understand it.

In illiterate societies people make all calculations and decisions in their heads. In literate societies people are organised into networks, so that each person is only a small step in a huge algorithm, and it is the algorithm as a whole that makes the important decisions.

Which means that when designing their self-driving car, Toyota or Tesla will be transforming a theoretical problem in the philosophy of ethics into a practical problem of engineering

It turns out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second. Vaunted "human intuition" is in reality "pattern recognition.

How can we act morally when we have no way of knowing all the relevant facts?

Piyasay? idare edenler bir karara varman?z için bin y?l oturup beklemeyecektir.

The ability to navigate is like a muscle—use it or lose it.14 The same is true for the ability to choose spouses or professions.

When a single professional makes almost all the decisions, mistakes can be catastrophic.

Soon authority might shift again – from humans to algorithms.

The revolutions in biotech and infotech are currently being started by engineers, entrepreneurs, and scientists who are hardly aware of the political implications of their decisions, and who certainly don't represent anyone.

In the late 20th century democracies usually outperformed dictatorships because of democracies were better at data processing. A democracy diffuses the power to process information and make decisions among many people and institutions, whereas a dictatorship concentrates information and power in one place.

Finns det något farligare än missnöjda och oansvariga gudar som inte riktigt vet vad de vill?

Referendums and elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality. If democracy were a matter of rational decision-making, there would be absolutely no reason to give all people equal voting rights – or perhaps any voting rights at all.

It turns out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second.

Claiming all power for the purpose of prosperity and justice in society is conflicting to its own cause, rather authorizing individual authority is the just way toward a better society, because each individual has the right to decide about himself, and for collective decision making in society, all individual has the right to provide their input in it, after that majorities' rule and minorities' rights is the key to move forward, otherwise its destruction of society.

The problem isn't not only with what's right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what's right and wrong.

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.

Every choice you make has an end result.

In order to make most good, least harm choices, and create a humane and sustainable world, we are going to have to become adept at making connections. Single-issue thinking and taking sides when issues are presented to us in simplistic terms will have to give way to far more nuanced research, consideration, and decision making.

Sometimes being an adult doesn't prevent you from making terrible choices

A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.

To be happy, follow the heart not the thoughts.

I think market research is extremely valuable when it is used properly. But you must not use it to tell you what to do.

I have spoken before about the "yes" and the "no" alive in every person who seeks therapy. Listening to Pearl I heard the following: Yes, I would like to confide in you. No, that would displace my loyal family. Yes, I want to get help. No, that would prove I needed it. Yes, I want to change my life. No, I don't. All the things I do and everything I am have taken me this far.