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The dictatorship of rationality (6 ways to make better decisions)
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What is discussed
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Starting from John Ralston Saul's Voltaire's Bastards, Montemagno proposes complementing rationality with doubt, ethics, creativity, humanism, context and reflection. Through sport, startups and family examples, he argues that an efficient solution can still be incomplete or unacceptable. He connects this argument with AI: using it should improve quality of life and broaden thought rather than reduce every decision to productivity alone.
Key points
- Questioning established habits can reveal alternatives excluded by familiar procedures.
- Ethics should enter the assessment even when a choice appears financially attractive.
- Context, creativity and time for reflection help prevent an overly narrow view of problems.
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