The problem is that System One wasn’t created for the world we live in. For almost the entire history of our species and those that came before, our ancestors lived in small nomadic bands that survived by hunting animals and gathering plants. It was in that long and long-ago era that evolution shaped and molded System One. Having been forged by that environment, System One works quite well in it. But today, very few human beings spend their days stalking antelope and avoiding lions. We live in a world transformed by technology—a world in which risks are measured in microns and
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