A weekly column

Path Dependent

Each week we read what decision science got up to, work out which bits might actually hold up, and try to say what it means for the next choice you make.

Issue001

4 November 2026

Half of it is true. The AI can guess which half. Probably.

You know the feeling when you find out that a fact you've repeated at dinner parties for ten years isn't really a fact. It's a bit like reaching for a step in the dark that isn't there. Your foot keeps going. Your stomach does something odd.

  1. 1About half of it holds up (and a new challenge to that "half")
  2. 2The AI that reads the plan and guesses the result
  3. 3Framing survives the full menu
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