I saw Kahneman and Thaler (both behavioral economists) on a (since deleted) email screenshot
January 31, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I saw Kahneman and Thaler (both behavioral economists) on a (since deleted) email screenshot
Together, the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman made the world a better place.
The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think
A new book by the author of “Moneyball” shows how, together, the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman made the world a better place.
www.newyorker.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Together, the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman made the world a better place.
I named my fists Kahneman and Tversky because I’m gonna make your losses loom larger than your gains
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I named my fists Kahneman and Tversky because I’m gonna make your losses loom larger than your gains
But Daniel Kahneman told me there were only two types of thinking
The trick is to fail to distinguish whether people mean thinking (folk intuition) vs. thinking (neuroscience) vs. thinking (philosophy). Then we can fight all day
September 23, 2026 at 7:48 PM
But Daniel Kahneman told me there were only two types of thinking
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
- Daniel Kahneman
- Daniel Kahneman
January 25, 2026 at 2:58 AM
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
- Daniel Kahneman
- Daniel Kahneman
Finally out:
Rohrer, J. M., & Wenz, S. E. (2024). Inappropriate causal assumptions underlie Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers’ conclusions. PNAS, 121(46). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#methods #methodology #causality #causalinference #sociology #psychology #SciComment #quantileregression
Rohrer, J. M., & Wenz, S. E. (2024). Inappropriate causal assumptions underlie Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers’ conclusions. PNAS, 121(46). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#methods #methodology #causality #causalinference #sociology #psychology #SciComment #quantileregression
Inappropriate causal assumptions underlie Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers’ conclusions | PNAS
Inappropriate causal assumptions underlie Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers’ conclusions
www.pnas.org
November 4, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Finally out:
Rohrer, J. M., & Wenz, S. E. (2024). Inappropriate causal assumptions underlie Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers’ conclusions. PNAS, 121(46). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#methods #methodology #causality #causalinference #sociology #psychology #SciComment #quantileregression
Rohrer, J. M., & Wenz, S. E. (2024). Inappropriate causal assumptions underlie Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers’ conclusions. PNAS, 121(46). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#methods #methodology #causality #causalinference #sociology #psychology #SciComment #quantileregression
Gerd Gigerenzer on the legacy of Daniel Kahneman
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Gerd Gigerenzer on the legacy of Daniel Kahneman | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Gerd Gigerenzer on the legacy of Daniel Kahneman
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"the recognition heuristic", from kahneman
Interesting side effect of being trained on all available data and having a sense that you should have some compressed knowledge of an event. If it's completely novel to you, how can it be true?
If real why do I not know about it?
If real why do I not know about it?
Models often thought they'd have known about an event if real. Some of this is could be due to not having an explicit cutoff date, I retested Opus with its Jan 2026 cutoff in the prompt. Its mean prob moved from 34 to 42, but Opus sometimes still expressed the same skepticism.
June 22, 2026 at 9:00 PM
"the recognition heuristic", from kahneman
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
-- Daniel Kahneman
-- Daniel Kahneman
November 21, 2024 at 12:35 PM
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
-- Daniel Kahneman
-- Daniel Kahneman
as Kahneman and Tversky would have it: they are in the loss domain now and accordingly have become more risk-seeking
Many are arguing that they wouldn't be acting this way if they thought they were subject to free & fair elections.
Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys
Plausible. But another explanation is that they see the writing on the wall--generational backlash--and they're attempting increasingly desparate hail marys
January 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
as Kahneman and Tversky would have it: they are in the loss domain now and accordingly have become more risk-seeking
danny fucking kahneman too
January 31, 2026 at 3:52 PM
danny fucking kahneman too
“It is a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.”
-Daniel Kahneman🌱
-Daniel Kahneman🌱
June 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“It is a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.”
-Daniel Kahneman🌱
-Daniel Kahneman🌱
“We think of our future as anticipated memories.”
- Daniel Kahneman🌱
- Daniel Kahneman🌱
June 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
“We think of our future as anticipated memories.”
- Daniel Kahneman🌱
- Daniel Kahneman🌱
"Nada en la vida es tan importante como tú crees que es mientras estás pensando en ello"
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman
August 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"Nada en la vida es tan importante como tú crees que es mientras estás pensando en ello"
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman
"Daniel Kahneman was the world’s greatest scholar of how people get things wrong." R.I.P.
Daniel Kahneman Wanted You to Realize How Wrong You Are
The late psychologist gave the world an extraordinary gift: admitting his mistakes.
www.theatlantic.com
March 28, 2024 at 2:35 AM
"Daniel Kahneman was the world’s greatest scholar of how people get things wrong." R.I.P.
Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Kahneman gestorben#Wirtschaftsnobelpreis#Psychologie#Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Kahneman gestorben
Der Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman ist im Alter von 90 Jahren gestorben.
www.tagesschau.de
March 28, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Kahneman gestorben#Wirtschaftsnobelpreis#Psychologie#Wirtschaftswissenschaften
It’s pretty well proven in #politicalpsychology: voters think they vote on policies and issues, but they really don’t. They vote on things like leadership and feelings. See Kahneman and Lenz if you don’t believe new.
The left-of-center is going to get strangled to death by fascists while desperately searching for the secret hidden material condition they can improve to magically become popular. It doesn’t exist! Voters don’t work like that!
August 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It’s pretty well proven in #politicalpsychology: voters think they vote on policies and issues, but they really don’t. They vote on things like leadership and feelings. See Kahneman and Lenz if you don’t believe new.
La teoría de Kahneman lo sostiene con el Sistema 1 vs Sistema 2 de pensamiento: el primero es rápido, emocional e intuitivo. El segundo es lento, racional y vago como un gato después de comer. La extrema derecha habla al Sistema 1. Y gana.👇
May 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
La teoría de Kahneman lo sostiene con el Sistema 1 vs Sistema 2 de pensamiento: el primero es rápido, emocional e intuitivo. El segundo es lento, racional y vago como un gato después de comer. La extrema derecha habla al Sistema 1. Y gana.👇
"We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know."
-Daniel Kahneman
-Daniel Kahneman
July 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know."
-Daniel Kahneman
-Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate who upended economics, dies at 90
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate who upended economics, dies at 90
Psychologist Daniel Kahneman found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 27, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate who upended economics, dies at 90
RIP Kahneman and Tversky you would have loved BlueSky before being hounded off of it for being Israeli
July 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
RIP Kahneman and Tversky you would have loved BlueSky before being hounded off of it for being Israeli
I guess it’s old news, but I hadn’t heard it. Daniel Kahneman, Nobel prize winning economist, just decided to die at 90, seemingly for no pressing health reason. How interesting, I guess I don’t feel too bad that he’s dead, given the circumstances, but I really liked his book
May 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I guess it’s old news, but I hadn’t heard it. Daniel Kahneman, Nobel prize winning economist, just decided to die at 90, seemingly for no pressing health reason. How interesting, I guess I don’t feel too bad that he’s dead, given the circumstances, but I really liked his book
reminds me of psychologist Daniel Kahneman exploring macroeconomics and discovering it was built entirely on the "rational man".
September 22, 2026 at 2:09 AM
reminds me of psychologist Daniel Kahneman exploring macroeconomics and discovering it was built entirely on the "rational man".