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Life as a Video Game: What is the Best Move?

I think using life as a video game is the best way to maximize optimal decision making.

Humans are predictably irrational in that we make decisions that are suboptimal but we’re predictable in our decisions over a large enough sample.

Behavior can be modelled and humans can use this intelligence and data to make the best decisions.

If you’re a store and you sell 20 ice cream flavors, how do you know which ones you should sell? Would you be better off or worse off if you sold sold only 10 flavors?

How should you email people to get the best response? Does it make sense to be rude? Should you send a proposal to someone first or wait for them to send you one? Is it best to appear new or experienced?

Humans consistently make lots of suboptimal decisions instead of like a chess player who thinks “What is my best move?”