Israeli - Psychologist | March 5, 1934 -
Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction.
Daniel Kahneman
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We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
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By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
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If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
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Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
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When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
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It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
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All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.
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