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Referendums and elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality. If democracy were a matter of rational decision-making, there would be absolutely no reason to give all people equal voting rights – or perhaps any voting rights. There is ample evidence that some people are far more knowledgeable and rational than others, certainly when it comes to specific economic and political questions.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
25. McNamara Fallacy:
We tend to evaluate outcomes by the metrics that are easiest to measure. The Vietnam War was a disaster largely because US SoD Robert McNamara gauged success by enemy body count, ignoring less quantifiable but more important metrics like public sentiment.
Everyone, a New MEGATHRE...
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we use the term “superintelligence” to refer to intellects that greatly outperform the best current human minds across many very general cognitive domains.
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
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