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National Academy of Sciences has gone on the record, saying that “the Federal government should not rely on polygraph examinations for screening prospective or current employees to identify spies or other national security risks because the test results are too inaccurate.” With as little as fifteen minutes of training, people have been able to

Finally, the fifth rule is to choose immeasurable rewards over measurable ones. Seeing numerical scores increase is satisfying in the short term, but the most valuable things in life — freedom, meaning, love — can’t be quantified.

The key is to stay focused on the behavior you are trying to change. So in intervention selection, assume nothing. What worked elsewhere may not work here; what has failed in another context may be viable in this one. Stay fixated on optimal distinctiveness

expanding the monetary base is very different than expanding the broad money supply. Many people think that QE alone is inflationary, but it’s not. At most, QE alone is anti-deflationary, or inflationary for asset prices in particular. On its own, QE doesn’t result in more money in peoples’ pockets chasing more goods, or higher commodity prices.

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depending on how fast the puck is already moving. Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.

having selected what interventions we intend to pilot, we need to stop and do an ethical check based on two factors: what behavior we are changing and how we are changing behavior. And these ethical problems are mapped to the two fundamental behavioral gaps: the intention-action gap and the intention-goal gap.

All that detail, but nothing that makes a difference to the task at hand—his choice of future flatmate.

encapsulate the most important building block of logical arguments: logical implication.