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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgement.In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to design computers that could act as ideal rational agents in the face of uncertainty. The Irrati…onal Decision tells the story of how they settled on a peculiar mathematical definition of rationality in which every decision is a statistical question of risk. Benjamin Recht traces how this quantitative standard came to define our understanding of rationality, looking at the history of optimisation, game theory, statistical testing, and machine learning. He explains why, now more than ever, we need to resist efforts by powerful tech interests to drive public policy and essentially rule our lives.While mathematical rationality has proven valuable in accelerating computers, regulating pharmaceuticals, and deploying electronic commerce, it fails to solve messy human problems and has given rise to a view of a rational world that is not only overquantified but surprisingly limited. Recht shows how these mathematical methods emerged from wartime research and influenced fields ranging from economics to health care, drawing on illuminating examples ranging from diet planning to chess to self-driving cars.Highlighting both the power and limitations of mathematical rationality, The Irrational Decision reveals why only humans can resolve fundamentally political or value-based questions and proposes a more expansive approach to decision making that is appropriately supported by computational tools yet firmly rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment. How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Hardback. Condition: New. How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality-and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgmentIn 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 question of risk. Benjamin Recht traces how this quantitative standard came to define our understanding of rationality, looking at the history of optimization, game theory, statistical testing, and machine learning. He explains why, now more than ever, we need to resist efforts by powerful tech interests to drive public policy and essentially rule our lives.While mathematical rationality has proven valuable in accelerating computers, regulating pharmaceuticals, and deploying electronic commerce, it fails to solve messy human problems and has given rise to a view of a rational world that is not only overquantified but surprisingly limited. Recht shows how these mathematical methods emerged from wartime research and influenced fields ranging from economics to health care, drawing on illuminating examples ranging from diet planning to chess to self-driving cars.Highlighting both the power and limitations of mathematical rationality, The Irrational Decision reveals why only humans can resolve fundamentally political or value-based questions and proposes a more expansive approach to decision making that is appropriately supported by computational tools yet firmly rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment.
Published by Nouvelle Revue Française, 1936
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soft cover. Condition: very good. IN-8 broché, 160 pages. Sommaire : André Gide: Pages de Journal, Pages 5-16 --- Jules Supervielle: Lettre à l'étoile, Pages 17-20 --- Louis Guilloux: Verre à liqueur, Pages 21-34 --- André Suarès: Dictature et dictateurs, Pages 35-46 --- Theodore Francis Powys: Le bon vin de M. Weston, Pages 47-…74 --- A. Habaru: Le mouvement stakhanoviste, Pages 75-95 --- Alain: Propos, Pages 96-98 --- Albert Thibaudet: Affaires, Pages 99-104 --- Julien Benda: Esprit pur et Esprit incarné, Pages 105-109 --- Jean Wahl: Sueur de Sang, par Pierre Jean Jouve (Éditions de la N. R. F.), Pages 110-113 --- Michel Leiris: Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres, par Raymond Roussel (Lemerre), Pages 113-115 --- Jean Schlumberger: L'Utopie, par Thomas More (Librairie Droz), Pages 116-117 --- H. Le Savoureux: Lucile de Chateaubriand, par Albéric Cahuet (Fasquelle), Pages 117-120 --- Boris de Schloezer: Portrait psychologique de Tolstoï, par François Porché (Flammarion), Pages 120-122 --- Jean Wahl: Procès intellectuel de l'art, Pages 122-123 --- Michel Leiris: L'Éthiopie et son destin, par Maurice Lachin et Dimitry Weliachew (Éditions de la N. R. F.), Pages 123-125 --- Étiemble: Indochine S. O. S., par Andrée Viollis (Gallimard), Pages 125-126 --- Eugène Dabit: La Belle Lurette, par Henri Calet (Éditions de la N. R. F.), Pages 126-128 --- Marcel Arland: Jeunes ménages, par Jacques Debû-Bridel (Éditions de la N. R. F.), Pages 128-129 --- Eugène Dabit: Contre-ordre, par Pierre Herbart (Éditions de la N. R. F.), Pages 129-130 --- Henri Pourrat: Mandrin par un de sa bande, par Joseph Jolinon (Éditions de la N. R. F.), Pages 131-132 --- Benjamin Crémieux: La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu, de Jean Giraudoux (Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis Jouvet), Pages 132-133 --- A. Rolland de Renéville: Le Faiseur, de Balzac (L'Atelier), Pages 133-134 --- André Lhote: Surréalisme et surindépendance, Pages 134-137 --- Henri Pourrat: Guénolé, par Florian Le Roy (Tallandier), Pages 138-138 --- Marcel Arland: Une femme se cherche, par Gabriel Brunet (Mercure de France), Pages 138-138 --- Marcel Arland: Les mains pleines, par Jacques Bonjean (N. R. F.), Pages 138-139 --- A. Rolland de Renéville: La méditation bouddhique, par G. Constant-Lounsbery (Adrien Maisonneuve), Pages 139-139 --- A. Rolland de Renéville: La franc-maçonnerie et la révolution intellectuelle du XVIIIe siècle, par Bernard Fay (Éditions de Cluny), Pages 139-139 --- A. Rolland de Renéville: L'oeuvre philosophique de Hoené Wronski (Éditions Véga), Pages 139-140 --- Jean Guérin: Paraboles, par Mme Albert-Lasard et Paul Valéry (Éditions du Raisin), Pages 140-140 --- Jean Prévost: Les dômes impériaux de Spire, Mayence et Worms, par Weigert (Deutscher Kunsverlag), Pages 140-140 --- Jean Prévost: La cathédrale de Bamberg, par W. Pinder, Pages 140-141 --- Paul Valéry: Que seriez-vous, si vous n'étiez mystère., Pages 141-142 --- Joris-Karl Huysmans: Signification du Trocadéro, Pages 142-143 --- Valery Larbaud: Le Hameau des Abeilles, Pages 143-144 --- Anonymes: Mémento, Pages 145-145 --- Adrienne Monnier: Au printemps dernier, notre amie Bryher - qui est une des figures les plus., Pages 145-145 --- Jean Guérin: L'on ne connaît pas assez l'Italiano. Il publie de très belles photos., Pages 145-145 --- Julien Benda: Une lettre, Pages 145-146 --- Julien Benda: Ne rendons pas à Dieu ce qui revient à César, Pages 147-148 --- Charles-Albert Cingria: Quinze novembre, Pages 148-150 --- Paul Recht: Un maison pour aveugles, Pages 150-151 --- Adrienne Monnier: Maurice Chevalier, Pages 151-153 --- Jean Cassou: Eaux-fortes de Marcoussis pour illustrer Alcools, Pages 153-155 --- Tristan Derème: Les propos de M. Polyphème Durand : De quelques inconnus perdus au fond des siècles, Pages 155-157 --- Jacques Delamain: Caprices de janvier, Pages 157-158 --- Henri Pourrat: Rencontres, Pages 159-160.
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soft cover. Condition: very good. IN-8 broché, 160 pages. Sommaire : Julien Benda: Sporades (I), Pages 161-167 --- Eugène Dabit: Un homme et un chien, Pages 168-180 --- André Gide: Pages de Journal, Pages 181-193 --- Raymond Schwab: Nemrod (Deux fragments), Pages 194-201 --- Henri Fontenoy: Présentation de Lewis Carroll, Pages 2…02-207 --- Lewis Carroll: Lettres à des enfants, Pages 208-220 --- Pierre Hamp: Il faut que vous naissiez de nouveau (III), Pages 221-244 --- Alain: Propos, Pages 245-247 --- Albert Thibaudet: De l'examen du Répertoire, Pages 248-253 --- Ramon Fernandez: Connaissance et science de l'homme, Pages 254-261 --- Marcel Arland: Les Violents, par Ramon Fernandez, Pages 262-269 --- Marcel Arland: Lucie-Paulette, par Jean Prévost, Pages 262-269 --- Marcel Arland: La roue tourne, par Charles Silvestre, Pages 262-269 --- Marcel Arland: Sept-Sorts, par Édith Thomas, Pages 262-269 --- Henri Pourrat: Frédéric, par Franz Hellens (Gallimard), Pages 270-271 --- Henri Pourrat: La mort dans l'âme, par Franz Hellens (Folemprise), Pages 270-271 --- Louis Francis: Fièvre blanche, par O. P. Gilbert (Gallimard), Pages 272-273 --- Jean Prévost: Stendhal, par Alain (Rieder), Pages 273-275 --- Jean Prévost: En lisant Balzac, par Aalin (Laboratoires Martinet), Pages 273-275 --- Benjamin Crémieux: Évasions littéraires, par Marcel Thiébaut (Éditions de la N. R. F.), Pages 275-278 --- Jean Vaudal: Modernes, par Denis Saurat (Denoël et Steele), Pages 278-279 --- Edmond Vermeil: Idoles allemandes, par Max Hermant (Grasset), Pages 280-282 --- Brice Parain: Révolution personnaliste et communautaire, par Emmanuel Mounier (Éditions Montaigne), Pages 282-285 --- A. Rolland de Renéville: Brhad-Aranyaka Upanisad (Les Belles Lettres), Pages 285-289 --- Jean Wahl: K. W. F. Solger : Esthétique et philosophie de la présence, par Maurice Boucher (Stock), Pages 289-290 --- Boris de Schloezer: Jacques Copeau à Florence, Pages 290-291 --- André Breton: Sur la mort de René Crevel, Pages 291-293 --- Henri Fluchère: La vie de D. H. Lawrence, par Albert Fabre-Luce (Grasset), Pages 293-294 --- Boris de Schloezer: Histoire de la littérature russe, par M. V. Hofmann (Payot), Pages 294-295 --- Jean Grenier: Il y a encore des paradis, par Henry de Montherlant (Soubiran), Pages 295-295 --- Étiemble: Nietzsche et la Volonté de puissance, par H.-L. Miéville (Payot), Pages 295-295 --- Étiemble: La Chine secrète, par Egon-Erwin Kisch (Gallimard), Pages 295-295 --- Jean Guérin: L'arc chez les Botocudos, par G. Bergmann (Liévée-Fiévin), Pages 295-296 --- Bernard Groethuysen: Lettres et fragments inédits, de G.-W. Leibniz, Pages 296-296 --- Gérard Walter: Pages choisies de Babeuf (Armand Colin), Pages 296-296 --- Jean Grenier: L'Ordre Nouveau, Pages 297-298 --- Anonymes: Mémento, Pages 298-299 --- Alex Emmanuel: Une lettre, Pages 299-299 --- Jean Grenier: Spirituel et temporel, Pages 300-301 --- Pierre Herbart: Lettre à Julien Benda, Pages 301-303 --- Julien Benda: Réponse à Pierre Herbart, Pages 303-304 --- Julien Benda: Les goujats de l'humanité, Pages 304-304 --- Julien Benda: Vive la liberté de l'esprit, Pages 304-304 --- Julien Benda: Le Congrès international des Écrivains, Pages 304-305 --- Denis de Rougemont: Ni droite ni gauche, Pages 305-306 --- Pierre Hamp: Présentation de la marchandise, Pages 306-308 --- Élie Richard: Les Belges ont écrit le nom d'Apollinaire sur un rocher, Pages 308-309 --- André Salmon: Tous les huis sont clos, Pages 309-309 --- Adrienne Monnier: À Luna-Park, Pages 310-311 --- André Lhote: Le prix Paul Guillaume, Pages 311-313 --- Paul Recht: Renaissance de la palme, Pages 313-314 --- Tristan Derème: Les Propos de M. Polyphème Durand : L'heure qui rime et l'écureuil, Pages 315-317 --- Jacques Delamain: Oiseaux d'août, Pages 317-318 --- Henri Pourrat: Almanach des champs, Pages 318-320.
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Hardback. Condition: New. How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality-and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgmentIn 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 question of risk. Benjamin Recht traces how this quantitative standard came to define our understanding of rationality, looking at the history of optimization, game theory, statistical testing, and machine learning. He explains why, now more than ever, we need to resist efforts by powerful tech interests to drive public policy and essentially rule our lives.While mathematical rationality has proven valuable in accelerating computers, regulating pharmaceuticals, and deploying electronic commerce, it fails to solve messy human problems and has given rise to a view of a rational world that is not only overquantified but surprisingly limited. Recht shows how these mathematical methods emerged from wartime research and influenced fields ranging from economics to health care, drawing on illuminating examples ranging from diet planning to chess to self-driving cars.Highlighting both the power and limitations of mathematical rationality, The Irrational Decision reveals why only humans can resolve fundamentally political or value-based questions and proposes a more expansive approach to decision making that is appropriately supported by computational tools yet firmly rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment.
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