Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. By Steven Pinker. Viking. 432 pages. We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Buy Book.

Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting, renowned investor, Charlie Munger, unveiled his three-step strategy for wealth ...

Conventionally, decision-making is portrayed as a rational process: individuals calculate potential risks and aim to maximize benefits. Yet, our brains do not always endorse rational action, ...

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters Steven Pinker. Viking, $32 (432p) ISBN 978-0-525-56199-6 ...

Rationality is what keeps us sane in the messiness of life. Being able to stay rational through a difficult time, or just for as long as a simple argument, is a sort of safety vest we can wear to ...

At first, Ziz LaSota seemed much like any other philosophically inclined young tech aspirant. Now, she and her followers are ...

Freud’s words in 1923: "I belong to the race that in the Middle Ages was blamed for all the plagues, and such experiences have a sobering effect, and they ...

IntualityAI has launched innovative predictive AI software that has been developed to simulate human intuition, making accurate predictions that are then turned into actionable alerts through the ...

This week’s column returns to two recent topics of discussion: the electric vehicle (EV) tax credit and the proposed ban on TikTok. (Incidentally, in an ironic turn of events, I had my TikTok debut ...

From rationality to QAnon: Bill Gates discusses the internet's unforeseen path as a place for "crazy people" Gates also said that he's "very nice" compared to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs ...

Even for us with bounded rationality, the MIF, based on these flaws, would hardly qualify as “good enough.” On the other hand, decision makers may be restricted by a variety of constraints, not the ...

But there is a kind of rationality at play in the collective mind of North Korea’s leadership — and we in the West would do well to understand it.. To be rational, of course, is to know what ...