Well, it's a book that I had always envisioned writing, because like many social scientists, I think that many of the tools that we use in our own research ought to be at the fingertips of every educated person, that everyone should have some grasp of probability, of logic, of Bayesian reasoning, of distinguishing correlationfrom causation. I taught a course at Harvard as the pandemic unfolded called Rationality.
to be able to do this-- for there to be enough of that period for them to be able to do the calculations, ought to look like.
ones which is great but it's not quite that simple because why should the designer be the one to choose how things ought to be why should the responsibility to adjudicate between preferred situations and not preferredsituations be vested only in designers um I think that the process of public debate and public scrutiny
So I want to do the last third of this talk by saying that in a way, We? Ought to be more focused on the rights paradigm.But the rights paradigm also has destabilizing forces attached to it.
And it was through Chessney Barrick, who had a direct experience with ORPHANetwork, who said, you know, this is a group that we really ought to try to help.She was so moved by the work that Eddy and ORPHANetwork was doing.
And that's from Socrates' speech there about how the erotic longing we direct to beautiful young things, which is our love of beauty, ought to be redirected, sublimated, so that all that love of beauty is directed towards beautiful mathematics, and beautiful laws of nature,and beautiful laws of justice, and eventually to the idea of beauty itself.
So lame argument number one, for example, the one that I cannot get over is in baseball you are allowed, if you're a pitcher, to replace your ulnar collateral ligament ought to be one of respect, not necessarily enthusiasm.
So I think we can use our capacity to reason and argue to reach the conclusion that there is something that we ought to be doing about this.And in fact, that we have the opportunity to do it.
happened in the 25 years I was there or any other time I think well in the early days they had unlimited oral argument ought to have cameras in the courtroom so that the public can see these
empathy what do you do to to get everybody in an organization to have that gut sense so you're not having stupid conversations about things that ought to be obvious well you could just hire your your customers but there's some problems with that um number onemost customers most companies aren't just trying to appeal to one type of person right they have many different kinds of folks to appeal to so even at a
-- not of how the code did work, but how it ought to work -- and get far enough in that then when he said, "Okay, where it seems to be doing doesn't match what I think it ought to be doing; I'm just going to make it do what I think it ought to be doing." And apparently got away with that over decades. Another person who has apparently adoptedthis technique is Peter Norvig, who was also a little shame-faced about it, but -- which goes a bit, I think also, to the point of how hard it is to read code.
who noticed Cousteau was having trouble adapting to physical therapy he was being given for the wounds that he suffered in a car crash. And Tailliez says, "Gee, you know, you really ought to consider going spear fishing with me.It might be a really good way to get plenty of exercise." So Cousteau started spear fishing and ran into another spear fisherman who was very
Khaled Abou Al-Fadl, great Muslim theologian, Usma was talking about earlier actually, you know, he writes a beautiful essay on this called, "The Place of Tolerance in Islam." oughtta invite to speak here, who has written a book called, "Good Without God," where he talks about how Humanists ought to be involved in interfaith cooperation and interfaith service.
And I'm saying that quite seriously. We ought to be desperately looking for ways to create more access for kids who just happen to grow up in the wrong zip code. A lot of my colleagues, at this point, push back and say, well, Mike, you're only talking about elite schools, right?
did those same labs spread out over 14 weeks, one lab a day-- one lab a week, excuse me. That ought to inspire us, I think, to think really creatively about how we can use these new technologies to create abundance where previously there was scarcity. And that brings me to the last point in the book.
If somebody's got two followers, Deepti, are you going to say, oh, wow. I ought to follow that person. No, because you're going to say, well, nobody else thinks so.
you ought to let me review restaurants for you.
"It ought to be remembered there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction
We ought to do the same thing.
We ought to think that through a little more.
It ought to work.
It ought to be that you stay out of a hospital unless you really need one.
I ought to say the thing that nearly killed the spacecraft 10 days out.
You ought to be able to plot that if you have the data.
You ought to get it.
You ought to know we can't change the world." And a few weeks later, my telephone rang It was that same man, and he said, "You know what?
There ought to be like a repository you can draw on so that the foundational work is there and people can build on it, therefore
we ought to think about how we can change the way we consume food, how we produce food, and the food choices that we make
You ought to meet some of the female cops I've worked with.
They ought to die because it's an idea that can be scaled, not because there's no capital, and great ideas just, you know, finish off.
We ought to make a commitment like that here in the United States.
we ought to do that.
they ought to be giving more effectively, at least the kind of audiences that I talk about.
You ought to move this.
We ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
He ought to get punched in the nose.
Google ought to start its own religion.
You ought to have them on a watch list.
You ought to hear about it if he does.
We ought to know that, just as perhaps we become aware that, some of us, maybe there's some sort of tendency for us to prefer people who
we ought not to look at this and then say, oh, well, this is clearly out.
people ought to know more about, is what the options are.
We ought to be phasing those out, going with renewables, and developing, as I say, next generation fission and other things so that we have a rational mix.
One ought to use truth and mechanisms for actually finding the truth to determine these things, rather than what essentially amounts to prejudice,
I ought to meet.
We ought to be able to recognize those animal precursors.
It ought to just be millions of common people who say, as they did with regard to the AIDS epidemic, hey, I'm not an expert about everything,
That ought to give you at least an initial kind of working hypothesis about what's likely to happen.
planet ought to have some interest in.
You ought to lose some weight.