http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2004/10/21/the-danger-to-ourselves/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2004/10/21/the-danger-to-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-35579 Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist || Politics of Nature part 2 || May || 2005 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:28:24 +0000 /?p=116#comment-35579 [...] Under our current system, we never examine the tradeoffs of the choices we are making. Under his, we make them explicit. I’ve ranted about this before (using the example of cars, actually), but it drives me nuts to see people making decisions without discussing the tradeoffs. [...] [...] Under our current system, we never examine the tradeoffs of the choices we are making. Under his, we make them explicit. I’ve ranted about this before (using the example of cars, actually), but it drives me nuts to see people making decisions without discussing the tradeoffs. [...]

]]> http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2004/10/21/the-danger-to-ourselves/comment-page-1/#comment-799 The Rantings of Eric Nehrlich || On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:26:37 +0000 /?p=116#comment-799 [...] As an aside, this also explains why most people suck at estimating probabilities. Our brains are wired to remember the abnormal and outlandish because they break the routine patterns that we have learned. We don’t remember the 99% of the time when things go as we expect them to, because it’s all handled subconsciously. So we significantly overestimate outlandish risks because they break the pattern and come to our conscious attention. [...] [...] As an aside, this also explains why most people suck at estimating probabilities. Our brains are wired to remember the abnormal and outlandish because they break the routine patterns that we have learned. We don’t remember the 99% of the time when things go as we expect them to, because it’s all handled subconsciously. So we significantly overestimate outlandish risks because they break the pattern and come to our conscious attention. [...]

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