David Epstein
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582 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 10 Sep
David Epstein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because it in some ways it would be easier, if more expensive, to bring it to the end anyway.
Although like you said, then creating something that what was the phrase that you the the hard feedback that you got great at creating solutions that are no longer needed or something like that?
So I kind of admire those.
Anyone who can defeat the sunk cost fallacy at any time, I have some admiration for, even though it's painful.
I think the first big surprise for me was the extent to which
The driver.
So once they made this, this had to remap all of America because Google Maps wasn't accurate enough for UPS.
And made this routing algorithm
The first big surprise to me and to them.
Was that
the people who actually had to use it basically rejected it and their managers rejected it.
And part of that was because
It did weird things.
It would tell them if they were driving down one road and there was a delivery to make on a side street, a human will s stop off and make it and it would tell them often to skip it and come back later.
Or the one that that several drivers told me about was
If you go on a cul-de-sac.
And it would tell you to zigzag.
Instead of
Walking around the cul de sac.
Maybe you're gonna save two meters or something.
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