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“Necessary Claims”: A technique to structure complex decisions

Life often turns out to be too complicated to fit into a human brain. If you’ve ever tried to choose from fifty flavors of ice cream, or to decide whether to buy a house, you know what I mean. Humans tend to make complex decisions based on simplified models called...

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“Necessary Claims”: A technique to structure complex decisions

Jun 10, 2021•15

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“Necessary Claims”: A technique to structure complex decisions

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Life often turns out to be too complicated to fit into a human brain. If you’ve ever tried to choose from fifty flavors of ice cream, or to decide whether to buy a house, you know what I mean.

Humans tend to make complex decisions based on simplified models called heuristics. Heuristics sometimes turn out to lack important factors, be biased, or hard to explain. Often, that’s fine - the stakes are low, you don’t have time and no one needs to understand your reasoning (e.g., choosing from fifty flavors of ice cream). “Necessary Claims'' is for the cases where a high risk of being incomplete, biased or hard to explain isn’t fine:... (read 1742 more words →)