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Discussion Fall 2020
Sun, 12/06/2020
https://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/the-cognitive-bias-codex-...
I wanted to share this with our class with the consideration that before people can begin to...
Thu, 11/05/2020
Government and business tell us that, in order to "get things done",
we need to have all sorts of structures -- Bosses, titles,
command-and-control hierarchies, voting, and, of course, competition.
Prove 'em wrong!
Pick some group that you are a member of, or some group...
Thu, 10/22/2020
We will need thousands of micro-innovations to
fulfill the goals of Makerism. The good news is that
there are many possible paths. Roadblocks on any one of them
don't derail Makerism. Nonetheless, we need to generate
lots of steps to have confidence of at least one...
Thu, 10/08/2020
Reminder: No Class on Monday, October 12, 2020
Alignment of goal stacks: Pick some controversial issue where there
are two diverging, but both well-reasoned opinions. For each, write out
the goal stack for that opinion, starting with the top of the Maslow...
Mon, 09/28/2020
Ultimatum Game and Positive-Sum Evolution
We talked about how the Ultimatum Game analysis occurs
in commercial supply chains. Find other instances of the Ultimatum
Game from everyday life or in situations you read about in the news.
Explain why the...
Mon, 09/21/2020
You learned about the pattern of the Prisoner's Dilemma,
where participants need to make a decision about whether to cooperate
or to defect. In Prisoner's Dilemma situations, you can get tempted to
defect when you should be cooperating. We saw how this applied to
...
Sat, 09/19/2020
Our planet will be sustainable if ‘we’ can all be more cooperative like nature. Plants emits Oxygen, needed by humans. Concurrently, human’s byproduct is carbon dioxide.
If with your ideas, we humans start to evidently get along i.e. achieve some levels of cooperation,
How...
Tue, 09/15/2020
We would like your initial impressions about the basic theme of the
course: Cooperation.
Please write a few paragraphs giving us your answer to the question
which is the title of our book: "Why Can't We All Just Get Along?".
What prevents people from...