Steven Pinker on Rationality: Why It Matters
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We're a multicultural society because we had a multicultural empire. The reason you and I are here talking is because some English people went to India and invaded it in the 17th century.
If your judgement is hijacked by emotions such as rage, fear, neediness, loneliness, or anger, you will act out of impulse – not out of value. This can be incredibly harmful – when the dust settles, you may realise you've messed-up.
Open-source evidence is essentially public information available to anyone and can be traced back to its original source. We've always maintained transparency in our methodologies and the step-by-step processes we employ.
We haven't really had a technology like AI in the history of technological development – the closest analogy would be the movable type printing press, which came to the fore at the beginning of the enlightenment, some five hundred years ago.
The actual actions of the people in the market are the things that determine what happens next within the market. The 'standard' financial markets model is, effectively, based on a coin toss. That is how derivatives are priced and how every exotic financial instrument is seen- they are very fancy coins, where flipping creates price changes.
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