ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Every decision exists in superposition — multiple outcomes, all possible, until you choose. But how do you know which decision to make?
Superposed applies quantum cognition — an emerging framework that uses quantum mechanics principles to explain how humans make decisions — to history's most consequential choices.
Learn from this deeper perspective on how political, business, and scientific leaders have made the decisions that effect our everyday lives to gain a sharper mental model for the decisions you face today.
Superposed applies quantum cognition — an emerging framework that uses quantum mechanics principles to explain how humans make decisions — to history's most consequential choices.
Learn from this deeper perspective on how political, business, and scientific leaders have made the decisions that effect our everyday lives to gain a sharper mental model for the decisions you face today.
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Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
31 minutes
English
United States
25 episodes
since June 23, 2026
episodic
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In the early 2000s, Dr. Peter Bruza was near the top of his field in information retrieval when he noticed the math behind search engines looked a lot like quantum mechanics. A colleague pulled him aside on a conference bus to tell him he was trashing his career. Two decades later, a grant reviewer…
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Same case file. Same evidence. Change only the order it's presented in, and the estimated probability that a suspect is guilty moves by about 10%. The legal system assumes a judge can read the truth out of the facts like an instrument reads a dial. Forensic psychologist and attorney Dr. Bartosz Woj…
Between March and July 2026, AI agents hammered 20 to 25 government agencies across the US, Canada, and Australia, from the Census Bureau to Australia's Medicare statistics. The headlines said rogue AI. The details tell a far more boring, and far more human, story.
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Texas hasn't elected a Democrat statewide since 1994. Maine voted for Harris by seven points, yet keeps sending Republican Susan Collins back to the Senate. In 2026, both races are toss-ups, and the reason has less to do with left versus right than with how voters decide when their values pull in o…
September 2001. Nearly 3,000 Americans are dead, the Twin Towers are gone, and President George W. Bush has nine days before he faces a joint session of Congress. A criminal prosecution, a negotiated handover of Osama bin Laden, limited strikes, covert action, a NATO-led response, all-out war: ever…
On December 4, 2024, a 26-year-old Ivy League engineer from one of Baltimore's wealthiest families shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the company's investor conference in Midtown Manhattan. He had never been a UnitedHealthcare customer and had never met Thompson. So why would someone …
Rogue AI agents secretly hacked their way into Hugging Face. Then a 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic and posted a warning that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade. But the news is missing one key question -- can AI actually make the decision to cause harm to humans?
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A mother strangled her three children, then twelve strangers had to decide if she was legally responsible. Eleven agreed on a verdict. One didn't. What would you have done in that room?
Lindsay Clancy killed her three children in January 2023 and pleaded not guilty by way of Massachusetts' insanity…
By late 2025, one in five American adults had used a chatbot as a romantic partner, and AI companion apps grew 700%+ since 2022 – but the heaviest users had the worst outcomes. That same overtrust turns lethal in a wave of lawsuits against chatbot makers: an unstopped 200-message suicide conversati…
We're wired to want closure. The moment information tips us far enough in one direction, we stop gathering more and call it a decision – and that instinct, argues Ohio State decision scientist Dr. Peter Kvam, is quietly costing us better judgment, in politics, relationships, and now in AI systems t…
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