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Gerd Gigerenzer

How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Smart Management
Classification in the Wild

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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Smart Management
Classification in the Wild

FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Gerd Gigerenzer’s How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

How to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.”   Technological solutionism is the belief that every societal problem is a “bug” that needs a “fix” through an algorithm. Technological paternalism is its natural consequence,

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