Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality

http://www.ted.com Why do we make irrational decisions so predictably? Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too.

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[ThermalHD]

1:50 - 1:53 lol she mention failblog

[ORCA4312]

One point that she is missing (or ignoring) is that our systems are not co-operative. They are competitive. They are complex by design to trap the dumber people and profit off of them. There is no WE to design BETTER systems.

Money doesn`t just go away. Someone ends up with it.

I would love to see more experiments with monkey money. It could be fascinating.

[zapper82]

Can you please audio swap this chick's voice out and replace it with a broken record, with the sound of fingernails scraping across a chalkboard. Thank you.

[mommytyres]

designed badly? BADLY? how about designed poorly.

[obliviousaa]

4:50

[JavierVMaldonado]

* * The bad and good terrestrial governments "Political Leaders" on human nations over this planet... They are directly proportional to Terrestrial human nations level of education and Level of Conscience evolution of man on Earth. That simple it is! So, we have to wait a while... at least on next 840 years to can appreciate some good, creative and rational governments and human leaders over this world. Javier, = Laurie Santos: How monkeys mirror human irrationality * * *

[RedPirateLord]

Wow. Nice calves.

[ADSwank]

@ORCA4312 I think it's important to mention that aspect, but not all economic games are zero sum.

[juliacotic]

Your channel is awesome!

[strobelights9]

The error thing is true I knew for all my life that I spell alcohol wrong and now I finally acknowledge it as a mistake