Many Ideas Happen To Us.

A General “law Of Least Effort” Applies To Cognitive As Well As Physical Exertion. The Law Asserts That If There Are Several Ways Of Achieving The Same Goal, People Will Eventually Gravitate To The Least Demanding Course Of Action. In The Economy Of Action, Effort Is A Cost, And The Acquisition Of Skill Is Driven By The Balance Of Benefits And Costs. Laziness Is Built Deep Into Our Nature.

Mental Effort, I Would Argue, Is Relatively Rare. Most Of The Time We Coast.

By Their Very Nature, Heuristic Shortcuts Will Produce Biases, And That Is True For Both Humans And Artificial Intelligence, But The Heuristics Of Ai Are Not Necessarily The Human Ones.

The Concept Of Happiness Has To Be Reorganised.

We Are Very Influenced By Completely Automatic Things That We Have No Control Over, And We Don't Know We're Doing It.