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It's tempting to offer up general decision-making principles, like minimize harm, but even that quickly leads to morally murky
decisions.
And who should be making all of these
decisions
anyhow?
Narcissists tend to act selfishly, so narcissistic leaders may make risky or unethical decisions, and narcissistic partners may be dishonest or unfaithful.
Meanwhile, governments are researching autonomous military drones that could wind up making
decisions
of whether they'll risk civilian casualties to attack a high-value target.
In my job as a technology advisor, I've seen so many companies make the well-meaning
decisions
to put huge investments into technology, only to have the benefits fail to live up to the expectation.
So while hacked phone calls and emails and networks keep grabbing the headlines, the real operations are the ones that are influencing the
decisions
you make and the opinions you hold, all in the service of a nation-state's strategic interest.
We learned directly how to struggle through really tough medical
decisions.
Families can struggle with those conversations, but for us, we also found that information immensely helpful with big
decisions.
The climate impact of food may come as a surprise to many people, but what these results show is that the
decisions
we make every day about the food we produce, purchase and consume are perhaps the most important contributions every individual can make to reversing global warming.
The guy who was supposed to build this machine was the guy in the middle, Vladimir Zworykin, from RCA. RCA, in probably one of the lousiest business
decisions
of all time, decided not to go into computers.
And that will enable machines, along with the ability to look further ahead than humans can, as we've already seen in Go, if they also have access to more information, they'll be able to make better
decisions
in the real world than we can.
I'd like to start with a simple question: Why do the poor make so many poor
decisions?
And others may argue that we should help them to make better
decisions.
They're not making dumb
decisions
because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb
decisions.
And one of the causes of this, I think, is that as each of us attempts to build this new kind of worldview, this holoptical worldview, this holographic image that we're all trying to create in our mind of the interconnection of things: the environmental footprints 1,000 miles away of the things that we buy; the social consequences 10,000 miles away of the daily
decisions
that we make as consumers.
And it will profoundly affect the well-being, the quality of life of the billions of people who are going to inherit the results of our
decisions.
And the tool I've found which has proven to be the most reliable safety net for emotional free fall is actually the same tool that has helped me to make my best business
decisions.
I would encourage you to think about stoicism a little bit differently, as an operating system for thriving in high-stress environments, for making better
decisions.
So you should ask yourself, if I avoid this action or decision and actions and
decisions
like it, what might my life look like in, say, six months, 12 months, three years?
And not only was he familiar with stoicism, but he pointed out, for all of his most important decisions, his inflection points, when he stood up for his principles and ethics, how he had used stoicism and something akin to fear-setting, which blew my mind.
All these design
decisions
have built user content that is fantastically interesting.
And we're always making
decisions
that are exceedingly personal and extraordinarily subjective.
But I want to share with you guys today my perspective as a geologist in how understanding earth's past can help inform and guide
decisions
that we make today about how to sustainably live on earth's surface.
We invested in some big data system, and our employees aren't making better
decisions.
So why is having more data not helping us make better decisions, especially for companies who have all these resources to invest in these big data systems?
It can cause you to make the wrong
decisions.
Let's bring our temple guides with the oracles, and whether this work happens in companies or nonprofits or government or even in the software, all of it matters, because that means we're collectively committed to making better data, better algorithms, better outputs and better
decisions.
It's called the tragedy of the commons, traditionally, but I think in the case of driverless cars, the problem may be a little bit more insidious because there is not necessarily an individual human being making those
decisions.
So far we've collected over five million
decisions
by over one million people worldwide from the website.
We also have people reflect on their own
decisions
by giving them summaries of what they chose.
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