The undoing project
Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it has had on evidence-based regulation.
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35people
2016–2026years
56% recommend41% neutral3% critical
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What Hacker News says
- Hard no, but for context, I discuss books with AI all the time. I wouldn't discuss Hemingway with an AI, completely pointless. His work is not about the content, it's about the beauty of the prose. By comparison, The Timeless Way of Building, I have ruminated on and used AI to explore. It wouldn't make me want to interact with a synthetic version of Christopher Alexander.
That's not to say the backstory of an author isn't something I would go for either. The Undoing Project was the perfect bookend to Kahneman's work.
- kahneman was such a fascinating personality. Other than "Thinking fast and slow", I highly recommend "The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis about Kahneman and Tversky's incredible journey changing the standard economic theory.
Some interesting talks with Daniel Kahneman
- https://www.edge.org/adversarial-collaboration-daniel-kahnem...
- https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-... Kahneman himself reponds in the comment sections to a very critical piece about his work.
- The Undoing Project is a solid read about his life and work too.
- If you haven’t read The Undoing Project, you should.
- If, like me, you're interested in the subject matter of this book, I recommend reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis instead.
- Even if it were real, the bigger problem is assuming anyone knows how to accurately evaluate merit. I’ll point you to any number of books on human biases, but I particularly like The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis.
The tech version of this is extremely frustrating, because intelligent people are very good at letting their brains blind their biases and insulate their egos.
