David Epstein
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Yes.
I think you put it very well.
I'm not sure I have anything to add to the way that you just summarized that.
Yes.
Man, if you read his writing about what was coming with AI starting in the fifties, he was seeing a lot of what was coming.
He was a founding father of AI.
But I think Simon, first of all, he was a massive polymath, right?
He won the Nobel in economics, he won the highest award in psychology, won the Turing Award in computer science.
And so one I think he saw across disciplines, but at the same time, in his own words, he was really just studying one problem, which is how humans make decisions.
And
He was so enmeshed in that and the workings of the brain and modeling the workings of the brain.
In some ways he was
Fighting neoclassical economic theory, which modeled humans as
rational actor.
So the more options will always make a better decision.
And he was saying
Theoretically that's true.
In practice, it's completely false because of the way our brains work.
Sometimes more options will paralyze us.
Sometimes they will lead to better decisions that we'll regret more.
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