Rundown
2:55 How Humans Are Profligate Causal Theorists
4:44 Unconscious Influences
9:28 Reasoning By Schemas
11:20 Can Schemas Be Helpful & Unhelpful?
14:10 The Thinkability Heuristic
16:51 When Is Cost-Benefit Analysis Appropriate?
19:53 When Cost-Benefit Analysis Runs Into Moral Considerations

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