irrationality
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“Today’s lawsuit continues the absurdity and irrationality that the industry has come to expect from the defunct organization formerly known as the HFPA.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
They argue that the field has led to a focus on the irrationality of individuals rather than working for “systemic change” like legislation or regulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon said some of the money invested in AI would "probably be lost", while Google parent company Alphabet's chief executive Sundar Pichai said there was some "irrationality" in the AI boom.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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But they can newly explain so many of the irrationalities that are directly a product of the digital age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Well, all the reading I do is sort of aimed at the general mission of being more compassionate toward other people's irrationalities and skeptical of my own.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
In this way, Kirsch accepts the standard story about modernity: that ours is an era of “disenchantment” in which the old myths and irrationalities have been crushed under the boot heel of enlightened techno-science.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
The crux of the problem, as Cowen points out, is that it’s nearly impossible to understand irrationalities without taking advantage of them.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2012
One of the unfair irrationalities of love is that it may, at first, be attracted by the defects of the beloved, and later repelled by them.
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland