Walk into any IKEA, and you’ll see plenty of shoppers happily wheeling out boxes of flat-pack furniture. Despite knowing they’ll soon face hours of potential puzzling over cryptic instructions, bags…
Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google DeepMind wrote about AI, that its ‘vast, almost instantaneous consumption of information is not just difficult to comprehend; it's truly alien'.
Think about the last time you felt overwhelmed with choice. Scrolling through Netflix for what feels like an age? Feeling stumped about which pastry to choose when you visit your local bakery?
When making decisions, humans tend to opt for instant rewards, rather than wait for something greater down the line. This tendency is known as hyperbolic discounting and is a critical factor in…