Book Titles

Average is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

By Tyler Cowen

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-95373-9
Categories: Future, Intelligence, Technology

125 Quotes Found

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Average is Over:

…there is evidence that these man-machine collaborations outperform the humans working alone, whether in terms of accuracy or speed.

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Our educational standards, and in the longer term our regulatory standards, will need to change.

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…society is busy actively training up the population in an ongoing fashion. And more formal education is unlikely to be of much benefit.

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…the productive worker and the smart machine are, in today’s labor markets, strong complements than before.

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It is precisely our reasoned, considered judgments that we should be more suspicious of.

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Despite all our bad moves, from chess to the game of love, the good news is that we can learn and reverse some of our excess reliance on intuition.

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Human intuition is becoming radically aware of its own limitations.

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Your surrounding environment – the ‘help menu’ of life so to speak – is about to get a lot simpler and a lot stupider and sometimes a lot more frustrating, all at the same time.

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Complicated environments – also known as the real world… – are tricky.

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In the short and perhaps medium term there will be greater frustrations and some choices will be taken away from us.

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