Things That A Human Brain Has A Hard Time Thinking About
summary
Project applies neuroscience to nuclear decision protocols, training minds to notice rare threats by planting dummy suitcases in TSA x‑ray flows and running a VR presidential crisis where 190 of 200 participants—many experts—choose to launch within five minutes. Core claims: humans under time pressure default to act, not wait; a simple protocol change—removing forced rapid response—reduces erroneous launches. Work moves from papers to concrete protocol edits and policy briefings; funding was initially rejected then reopened.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Brain’s blind spots
- 1:14Nobel laureates to nuclear fears
- 4:01Training brains for unimaginable
- 6:48Grant rejection to nuclear protocols
- 8:55Human flaws in nuclear crises
- 13:45Normalizing nuclear war threats
- 16:33VR bias in nuclear decisions
- 19:19Call for protocol reform
- 22:45Einstein’s warning on humanity
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