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Oldandintheway's avatar

Of course, there are random events that change the world. I don’t know when another meteor will wipe away 3/4 of the species on Earth, or if solar flares with blow up all of our electronics. But the storms, fires, heat waves, and droughts on Earth have gotten worse in predictable ways. They only people who are really paying attention are the insurance companies, who don’t want to pay for predictable damages. The fact that there are so many deaths of innocent people in the wars in Ukraine and Israel / Palestine now is not a random evert, it’s the result of too many people unwilling to give up power to solve a problem. Daniel Kahneman died yesterday. He did the best job of explaining how irrational people can get, especially under pressure.

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Danielle NJ's avatar

I finished Thinking,Fast and Slow just a couple of weeks ago. Relevant to so many current events and of course elections.

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R Mercer's avatar

I was not aware that Kahneman had passed :(

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