Third Millennium Thinking Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, Robert MacCoun, 2024
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information.
Congratulations to Helia Hosseinpour, Laura Matzen, Kristin Divis, Spencer C. Castro, and @lace for the acceptance of their paper "Examining Limits of Small Multiples: Frame Quantity Impacts Judgments with Line Graphs" to @ieee_tvcg@computersociety ✨✊
How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time: Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong by Iain King
A compelling guide to ethical thinking for everyday life In How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time Iain King presents an introduction to moral philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the Enlightenment and beyond.
"Innovative Citizen Participation
explores the innovative ways that governments can effectively engage with citizens and stakeholders to source ideas, co-create solutions, and tackle complex policy"
"A Citizens’ Assembly
is a group of people selected by lottery who are broadly representative of a community. They spend significant time learning and collaborating through facilitated deliberation to find common ground and form collective recommendations for policy makers, decision makers, and the community."
"The Assembling an Assembly Guide is a resource for any institution, organisation, city administration, or policy maker interested in running a Citizens’ Assembly. It is also a useful tool for citizens and activists wishing to learn more about what a Citizens’ Assembly is and how it works, in order to strengthen their advocacy efforts."
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#DecisionMaking needs evaluation of options, deliberation & action-planning. @pooja_vis &co show that neurons in primate #PFC sequentially delineate these processes to separable components of number values, abstract decision & motor planning #PLOSBiologyhttps://plos.io/3SNsQEa
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Are #philosophy students’ intuitions about thought experiments different because of expertise?
Longitudinal studies of philosophy and #CogSci students (N = 226) didn't seem to reveal as much: there were some group differences in intuitions, but a selection/indoctrination effect seemed more likely than “a general expertise” or “expertise specific to particular subfields”.
How do we decide between ambiguous options? @gvaldebenitoo@pablobilleke &co use fMRI & TMS-EEG to show that #ParietalCortex is causally involved in computational processes that underestimate uncertainty during #DecisionMaking under ambiguity. #PLOSBiologyhttps://plos.io/3Heobpr
Anyone want to guess, the costs to host a meeting, for a group of 16, that collectively earn $25,600,000 a year? (Plus unk staffers salaries)
Weekends = 104 days + 14 public holidays
They have been working on the same problem for approximately 1000 hours to resolve just one problem? And they cannot find a solution. #HOMELESSNESS
3 Years- NADA #FastTrack - HOLD MEETINGS OUTSIDE?
#AI#Algorithms#DecisionMaking: "I’m very excited to post my new short draft essay with Hideyuki (“Yuki”) Matsumi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). The essay, which is a quick read (just 19 pages), is entitled: AI, Algorithms, and Awful Humans, forthcoming 92 Fordham Law Review (2024). It will be part of a Fordham Law Review symposium, The New AI: The Legal and Ethical Implications of ChatGPT and Other Emerging Technologies (Nov. 3, 2023).
The essay argues that various arguments about human versus machine decision-making fail to account for several important considerations regarding how humans and machines decide. You can download the article for free on SSRN. We welcome feedback"
You often hear that so-and-so much #GlobalWarming is "baked in", that is, the world keeps on warming on the #GreenhouseGases already emitted.
"The best available evidence shows that, on the contrary, warming is likely to more or less stop once #CarbonDioxide (CO2) #emissions reach zero, meaning humans have the power to choose their #climate future."
This is excellent news in terms of what appears to be physically possible and physically realistic.
Whether the sociopolitical issue of #DecisionMaking (governments, corporations, parliaments, law courts) can result in a decision to implement a rapid drop to zero emissions is an open question. It's worth trying.