I’m in what happens when meet and neither behaves as .

  1. Interested, here, means I’ve spent far too much time thinking this through with ChatGPT, Claude and talking to myself in the shower.
  2. Finally putting all those actuarial skills to use: overcomplicated spreadsheets, elaborate mental models and the comforting fact that numbers rarely talk back.
  3. People do talk back. They also change their minds, refuse to behave like the assumptions and reveal what the spreadsheet was missing.
  4. AI is very good at predicting what usually happens. People are very good at making “usually” the important word.

I love looking for the moment when a makes perfect and complete to a .

  1. A system is often just a series of sensible decisions that have never met one another because committees.
  2. Paper has never had to fill in its own form.
  3. Much of life’s absurdity comes from treating the foreseeable consequences of our own actions as unforeseen events.
  4. The proposition was simple enough to sound unreasonable: insurance might help people while they were alive.

Where the footnotes lead

Enough with the footnotes.

I think out loud about insurance, AI, behaviour change, and the small absurdities where they meet. If that sounds like your kind of problem, say hello.

Jonathan Roomer