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Nudge The Final Edition
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Richard H Thaler, Cass R Sunstein
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, September 10, 2021
Choice architecture is a restaurant receipt inclusive of tipping options with the understanding that most people will opt out of mental math and choose the middle option. Spacing rumble strips closer together tricks drivers into thinking they're speeding up, nudging the mind into breaking before sharp turns. Default saving behaviors mean missed opportunities for retirement planning, but most people will contribute if you structure a plan requiring them to opt out rather than opt in. How we make things easy or hard for people to do is what makes any policy effective, and affecting that through the lens of behavioral economics is what won Richard Thaler his Nobel Prize all those years ago. He's trail-blazed this science of decision-making, countering those who say choice architecture paradoxically limits choice by arguing with the analogy about how cafeteria food is laid out. Nobody balks at veggies being up front, dessert all the way at the end. Whoever displays the food has to put the food in some sort of order, so why not make it easier for people to pick what's better for them. Adam Smith and Milton Friedman and John Stuart Mill imagine our species as a Homo-Economicus always making rational decisions with all available information. In their defense, they weren't around to see science reverse engineer heuristics and biases that show our brains are built to decide thru patterns and with as little effort as possible.
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Immortality Key The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
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Brian C. Muraresku
justscrutiny
, September 07, 2021
The Da Vinci Code in real life!.... is what I've seen some reviews say. I've never read Dan Brown, but I love crazy Nic Cage. If you're a psychedelic-loving atheist who enjoys dense research, pick up your copy today. If not, Muraresku's deep dive into one of Christianity's best kept secrets might not be your cup of hallucinogenic wine. This 12-year thesis into the secret vaults of the Vatican by one of the greatest ancient greek linguists is what believers will call heresy and critics will call a stretch. They’ll call it fueling the flames of a conspiracy. Conspiracy you say? Remember when Pope Benedict appeased billions from the decades-long priest pedophilia cover up? Hiding sins used to be easier. If a few hundred years ago when the Gutenberg Revolution had the catholic church poised as the sole disseminator of all information, and during the Roman Inquisition the Vatican went about slaughtering women in power and any proselytizing the very same psychedelic eucharist from which our monotheistic faith is rooted, how would anyone have heard about it?
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