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It's helping to bring an incredible group of talented people together to really try to solve and penetrate these problems that have created our obstacles to management and rational use of this area that was once so far away and remote.
And he says, you know, "Philosophers love rational argument."
WK: And people actually, after the collapse of the Hosni Mubarak regime, the youth who have organized themselves in certain groups and councils, they are guarding the transformation and they are trying to put it on a track in order to satisfy the values of democracy, but at the same time also to make it reasonable and to make it rational, not to go out of order.
We had a financial regulatory regime based on the assumptions that traders were rational creatures who wouldn't do anything stupid.
And it's led to a view of human nature that we're rational individuals who respond in straightforward ways to incentives, and it's led to ways of seeing the world where people try to use the assumptions of physics to measure how human behavior is.
We're social animals, not rational animals.
If there had been rational technology assessment then, I think they very well might have said, "Let's call the whole thing off."
They see us as adults, rational adults.
Growing up in Perth as an overly cerebral kid ... (Laughter) I would always try and act in the way that I thought was rational, reasoning through every decision, trying to figure out the very best action to take.
Babies don't have a reputation for being particularly rational.
As rational as we are, as committed to intellect as we are.
So go mess with the complacently rational.
He was an economically rational person.
I think it's because there's an imbalance, an asymmetry in the way we treat creative, emotionally driven psychological ideas versus the way we treat rational, numerical, spreadsheet-driven ideas.
If you're a creative person, I think, quite rightly, you have to share all your ideas for approval with people much more rational than you.
And our puny rational faculties have been multiplied by the norms and institutions of reason, intellectual curiosity, open debate, skepticism of authority and dogma and the burden of proof to verify ideas by confronting them against reality.
So they're all well documented deviations from rational behavior.
I find this extremely important, because democracy is about people changing their views based on rational arguments and discussions.
So a rational choice economist would say, well, you should take all non-zero offers.
you'll find out more, but I've applied them to myself for over a decade, and I'm still here, and I still have my house, and the most important thing is, I hope I've done enough to inject a little green ink into your lives, so that when you go away and you're making your next absolutely sensible and rational decision, you'll take some time to think, "Hmm, I wonder whether this also makes sense in our new world after midnight."
That's the understanding, the rational understanding of our situation in the world that has led to these people being the most effective altruists in history, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
So a human encountering the divine, as Muslims believe Muhammad did, to the rationalist, this is a matter not of fact but of wishful fiction, and like all of us, I like to think of myself as rational.
This one went as follows: All societies, regardless of culture, be it Christian, Muslim, Confucian, must progress from traditional societies in which groups are the basic units to modern societies in which atomized individuals are the sovereign units, and all these individuals are, by definition, rational, and they all want one thing: the vote.
Because they are all rational, once given the vote, they produce good government and live happily ever after.
"As the last dodo was dying, Spinoza was looking for a rational explanation for everything, called eudaemonia.
That's a perfectly rational thing.
If you look at science on one hand, science is a very rational approach to its surroundings, whereas art on the other hand is usually an emotional approach to its surroundings.
People who care and will pivot towards the model of politics and economics in a very rational way, to those models that will ensure that they can have better living standards in the shortest period of time.
Meaning, in fact, that farmers are rational and profit-minded just like everybody else.
Well, they were happy as could be, because he hadn't said a rational word in the weeks of observation.
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