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18@@@@@@@ PANEGIRICO DELLA RAZIO EVOLUZIONISTICA

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the real function of swimming pools is to allow the middle class to sit around in bathing suits without looking ridiculous.
Note:DIPARTIMENTO IS NOT

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we should consider what purpose they serve,
Note:LE RELIGIONI

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In real life, belief is an instrument to do things,
Note:LA CREDENZA NN È MAI PURA

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the purpose of your eyes is to orient you in the best possible way,
Note:GLI OCCHI NN SONO FATGTI X VEDERE

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eyes are not sensors designed to capture the electromagnetic spectrum.
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the most accurate

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the most useful

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OCULAR DECEPTION
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Our perceptional apparatus makes mistakes—distortions—in
Note:PERCEZIONE

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Greek and Roman architects misrepresented the columns
Note:ESEMPIO

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floor of the Parthenon is curved in reality so we can see it as straight.
Note:ES 2

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ERGODICITY FIRST
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believe in Santa Claus, if it enhances his or her holiday aesthetic experience?
Note:CREDENZE COME I SENSI

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harboring superstitions is not irrational
Note:RAZIONALITÀ DELLA SUPERSTIZIONE STRAUSS....

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Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.
Note:MOTTO

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better safe than sorry.

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Primum vivere,

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“to make money you must first survive”—skin in the game again; those of us who take risks have their priorities
Note:FINANZA... OPERATORI E MANUALI

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Herb Simon,

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Gerd Gigerenzer;

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Ken Binmore,

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FROM SIMON TO GIGERENZER
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bounded rationality: we cannot possibly measure and assess everything as if we were a computer;
Note:LA RAZIONALITÀ SIMONIANA DEGLI SCACCHISTI

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knowledge of the world is fundamentally incomplete,

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ecological rationality

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many things we do that appear, on the surface, illogical, but have deeper reasons.
Note:TUTTO È RAZIONALE DAL PUNTO DI VISTA ECO...LOGICO

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REVELATION OF PREFERENCES
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Judging people by their beliefs is not scientific.
Note:CREDENZA E RAZIONALITÀ

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you will not have an idea about what people really think, what predicts people’s actions, merely by asking them—they
Note:PREFERENZA RIVELATA

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Even psychologists get it;

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Beliefs are…cheap talk.

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making some types of errors is the most rational thing to do,
Note:ERRORI SISTEMATICI

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An error-free world would have no penicillin,
Note:LE VIRTÙ EPISTEMICHE DELL ERRORE

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This is why I have been against the state dictating to us what we “should” be doing:
Note:CONTRO IL PATERNALISMO COMPORTAMENTALE... VEDI ANCHE BART WILSON (DESIDERIO DI ESSERE ON CONYROLLO VS DESIDERIO DI MN SBAGLIATR)

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WHAT IS RELIGION ABOUT?
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religion exists to enforce tail risk management across generations,
Note:TESI

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We have survived in spite of tail risks;
Note:SUCCESSO DELLE RELIGIONI

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Superstitions can be vectors for risk management rules.
Note:RI...TESI

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Jared Diamond discusses the “constructive paranoia” of residents of Papua New Guinea,
Note:NN DORMIRE SOTTO UN ALBERO MORTO

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“rational” bandied about by all manner of promoters of scientism isn’t defined well
Note:PER QS LO SCIENTISMO

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we do not have enough grounds to discuss “irrational beliefs.” We do with irrational actions.
Note:GUARDA ALLA FELICITÀ REALE DI UNA SOCIETÀ

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beliefs that are decorative
Note:VS CREDENZE CHE GUIDANO L AZIONE

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WHAT DOES LINDY SAY?
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“reasonable” were present in ancient thought, mostly embedded in the notion of precaution,
Note:RAGIONEVOLEZZA HA AL CENTRO LA VIRTÙ

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“Rationality” was forged during the post-enlightenment
Note:RAZIONALITÀ

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It assumes absence of randomness,
Note:CONDIZIONE

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what is rational is that which allows for survival.
Note:DEFINIZIONE ANTICA

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THE NONDECORATIVE IN THE DECORATIVE

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The point is that people who have religion—a certain religion—have survived.
Note:RELIGIONE E SOPRAVVIVENZA

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ecological reason: pigs compete with humans in eating the same vegetables, while cows eat what we don’t eat.
Note:PERCHÈ NN MANGIARE IL MAIALE È UNA SUPERST SOPRAVVISSUTA...FORSE

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kashrut laws survived

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brought cohesion:

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Rationality is risk management, period.
COS È LA RAZIONALITÀ...CONCLUSIONE