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for now it’s important to note that the grey area should be included somewhere, otherwise we’re just ignoring part of reality.

this: What if you throw the whole confidence paradigm in the trash?

The distinctive feature is that both the shoes the merchant sells you and the money you spend from your budget for shoes are held “for exchange.” They are intended to be traded for other goods. Other goods, such as wine and Super Bowl tickets, are held “for use,” to be consumed or otherwise enjoyed.

The problem of distribution, on which all the stress is being put today, is after all more easily solved the more there is to distribute.

“Let us sit down and take counsel together, and, if we differ from each other, understand why it is that we differ, just what the points at issue are,” we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the

America is, implicitly or explicitly, making a bet that whoever wins intelligence, in the form of AI, wins the future.

China is making a different bet: that for intelligence to truly matter, it needs energy and action.

If you control energy and action, making intelligence abundant strengthens your position.

Good behavioral scientists are T-shaped: they have one area of deep expertise (the legs of the T) and broad interests across other disciplines (the arms of the T). So on Fridays we have an hour when someone teaches a method from their legs to the rest of us for whom that isn’t our core discipline, broadening our arms. And then we spend another hour

Indeed, what is a lab experiment but the attempt to create a reality precisely like this one but where one key thing is changed such that it changes everything else around it? Such is the process of science: you attempt to fix all known variables so that you can understand the cause and effect of changing just one.