The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us

This audiobook narrated by Eric Jason Martin reveals how the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality-and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrational Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in which every decision is a statistical questio...