Meeting: September 27 at 1 pm

[Timothy Underwood]

Location: Near the playground in Muzeumkert

This time I thought we could talk about the ways some of our  preferences often don’t line up with our other preferences.

For example: imagine you compare how much you’d enjoy a nice meal at a restaurant to how much you value a good night’s sleep. Then compare a night’s sleep to getting ten thousand forints. And then compare those ten thousand forints back to the restaurant meal. Chances are the numbers you come up with don’t actually fit together—they’ll show some kind of inconsistency.

That inability to keep our preferences fully consistent seems to suggest a kind of irrationality. Or, if we argue it’s actually fine to have values that can’t always be traded off against each other (though in practice they still end up getting traded off), it still points to real difficulty in decision-making. And those difficulties show up all the time in real life.

So let’s talk about this problem and how we might manage it.

If anyone’s up for it, I’ve also got a little game we can play. It’s a bit silly, but it illustrates how quickly things fall apart when we try to compare values directly.

This is an ACX Meetups Everywhere event, so expect a few new faces.

Also, similar to last events, you can register your topic/discussion/article preferences here:
https://forms.gle/yfEG5a5GivjHNTu98

Most likely this won't strongly influence the agenda for this event but we'll strongly take it into account for the next month's.

Hope to see lots of you there,
Tim