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description: systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment due to subjective perception of reality

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman  · 24 Oct 2011  · 654pp  · 191,864 words

prime example of a more general above-average effect. However, the interpretation of the finding has changed in recent years, from self-aggrandizement to a cognitive bias. Consider these two questions: Are you a good driver? Are you better than average as a driver? The first question is easy and the answer

): 20–43. “engage in earnings management”: Ulrike Malmendier and Geoffrey Tate, “Superstar CEOs,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 24 (2009), 1593–1638. self-aggrandizement to a cognitive bias: Paul D. Windschitl, Jason P. Rose, Michael T. Stalk-fleet, and Andrew R. Smith, “Are People Excessive or Judicious in Their Egocentrism? A Modeling Approach

The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise Your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions

by David Robson  · 7 Mar 2019  · 417pp  · 103,458 words

saw their accuracy slowly climbing over the course of the tournament. The participants also responded to specific lessons. An hour-long online course to recognise cognitive bias, for instance, improved the forecasters’ estimates by around 10 per cent over the following year. Often, the simplest way to avoid bias was to start

., Kornfield, I., Krane, D., Saks, M. and Risinger, M. (2015), ‘Letter to the Editor ? Context Management Toolbox: A Linear Sequential Unmasking (LSU) Approach for Minimizing Cognitive Bias in Forensic Decision Making’, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 60(4), 1111?12. Chapter 4 1 Brown, B. (2012), ‘Hot, Hot, Hot: The Summer of 1787

-rich-too-famous-too-much-ego-joe-hart-epitomises-everything-that-is-a7106591.html. 22 Roberto, M.A. (2002), ‘Lessons From Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System Complexity’, California Management Review, 45(1), 136?58. 23 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/everest/stories/leadership.html. 24

Engineering Security

by Peter Gutmann

to mentally create order out of chaos (which is quite contrary to what humans do physically, particularly the “children” subclass of humans) is a known cognitive bias, in this case something called the clustering illusion. The term “clustering illusion” actually comes from statistics and describes the phenomenon whereby random distributions appear to

that they have to come up with an alternative explanation for an event. This is also one of the techniques used to try to combat cognitive bias that was mentioned in the discussion of the CIA analyst training manual in “Confirmation Bias and other Cognitive Biases” on page 145. (Unfortunately this type

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist  · 8 Oct 2012

, Nourrit et Cie., Paris, 1893 ——, Œuvres littéraires, ed. É. Faure, Crès et Cie., Paris, 1923 Deldin, P. J., Keller, J., Gergen, J. A. et al., ‘Cognitive bias and emotion in neuropsychological models of depression’, Cognition and Emotion, 2001, 15(6), pp. 787–802 Delis, D. C., Kiefner, M. G. & Fridlund, A. J

stimulus: a reinterpretation of Libet’s data’, Consciousness and Cognition, 2002, 11(2), pp. 144–61 Podell, K., Lovell, M., Zimmerman, M. et al., ‘The Cognitive Bias Task and lateralized frontal lobe functions in males’, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1995, 7(4), pp. 491–501 Poincaré, H., ‘La création mathématique

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

, S., Stevens, S., Anglin, S., et al. 2017. Political bias. Best Practices in Science. https://bps.stanford.edu/?page_id=3371. Kahan, D. M. 2012. Cognitive bias and the constitution of the liberal republic of science. Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper 270. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract

and Great Escape from poverty, 90–91, 364 unbridled/unregulated/untrammeled, 364 See also commerce; economic inequality; economics capital punishment abolition of, 208–213, 209 cognitive bias study referencing, 359–60 homosexual behavior criminalized, 223 Capp, Al, 297 Caracas, Venezuela, 172 carbon tax, 139, 145–6, 149 Carey, John, 247 Caribbean countries

Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

by Eric Topol  · 1 Jan 2019  · 424pp  · 114,905 words

among both patients and physicians that medications, and in particular very expensive ones, will have remarkable efficacy. When doctors prescribe any medication, they have a cognitive bias that it will work. Patients, too, believe the medicine will work. From an enormous body of randomized clinical trials, patients assigned to the placebo arm

on past experiences (first described by Tversky and Kahneman). Patterns of thinking such as the representativeness heuristic are an example of the widespread problem of cognitive bias among physicians. Humans in general are beset by many biases—Wikipedia lists 185, for example—but I want to highlight only a few of those

were influenced by a bias to believe that they were highly skilled and so wouldn’t be inducing heart attacks in their patients. Here the cognitive bias of doctors was influenced by their own relatively limited clinical experience and their failure to systematically look for evidence. Rule-based thinking can also lead

error, but we as a society don’t bat an eye at the situation.62 The introduction of computers into the mix sets up a cognitive bias, not acknowledging the net benefit. When a self-driving car kills a person, there’s an outcry over the dangers of self-driving cars. The

Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

by Designing The Mind and Ryan A Bush  · 10 Jan 2021

will learn to terraform it into a truly habitable, delightful place for its sole inhabitant. Chapter 2: Cognitive Biases and How to Rewire Them Understanding Cognitive Bias Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness. - Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness We begin our psychitectural journey in the cognitive realm

life. You need to build the habit of noticing these situations, which is largely a function of metacognitive awareness. Mindfulness has been found to decrease cognitive bias by bringing deliberate attention to otherwise habitual cognitive patterns.15 Being aware of times when you might be particularly prone to mistakes, such as when

the opportunity to step in, design a counter-algorithm, and rewire the bias, which we call cognitive revision. Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist and pioneer in cognitive bias research, suggests a workaround for this particular bias: Using such distributional information from other ventures similar to that being forecasted is called taking an 'outside

://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000504. Alexander Alvarez, “Destructive Beliefs: Genocide and the Role of Ideology,” 2008. “Cognitive Bias,” in Wikipedia, November 24, 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cognitive_bias&oldid=990416478. Buster Benson, “Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet, Simplified,” Medium, April 2, 2019, https://medium.com/thinking-is-hard/4-conundrums-of-intelligence

, no. 9 (November 1, 2000): 1142–50, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672002611010. Martie G. Haselton, Daniel Nettle, and Paul W. Andrews, “The Evolution of Cognitive Bias,” in The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015), 724–46, https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470939376.ch25. Małgorzata Kossowska, Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka

Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World

by James D. Miller  · 14 Jun 2012  · 377pp  · 97,144 words

might have an irrationally high opinion of trait X. Lots of Singularitarians have extremely high measured intelligence. Hanson thinks that some futurists also have a cognitive bias toward expecting “an unrealistic degree of [self-sufficiency] or independence.” 348 For most of mankind’s existence, we lived in small, autonomous hunter-gatherer tribes

Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds

by Kevin Dutton  · 3 Feb 2011  · 338pp  · 100,477 words

lock.’ Be Happy, Don’t Worry Over the past few years, MacLeod has been at the forefront of a brand new form of therapy called Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) which, if it works (and the early signs are good), could completely redefine the limits of persuasion. As a post-doc back in

than they are when it appears in a neutral position – a disparity not found among the non-anxious. Anxious individuals, in other words, have a cognitive bias towards threat. 11Recently, MacLeod has been thinking in a different way about the dot probe paradigm. At the outset, as we’ve just seen, the

Belief, Disbelief, and Uncertainty.’ Annals of Neurology, 63(2) (2008): 141–147. For a comprehensive review of the cognitive bias modification literature see MacLeod, Colin., Koster, Ernst H. W. and Fox, Elaine, ‘Whither Cognitive Bias Modification Research? Commentary on the Special Section Articles.’ Journal of Abnormal Psychology 118 (2009): 89–99. 10 MacLeod has

Thinking in Bets

by Annie Duke  · 6 Feb 2018  · 288pp  · 81,253 words

(March 1999): 255–75. Lerner, Jennifer, and Philip Tetlock. “Bridging Individual, Interpersonal, and Institutional Approaches to Judgment and Decision Making: The Impact of Accountability on Cognitive Bias.” In Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research, edited by Sandra Schneider and James Shanteau, 431–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Letterman, David. The

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

by Joseph Henrich  · 27 Oct 2015  · 631pp  · 177,227 words

The Truth About Lies: The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit

by Aja Raden  · 10 May 2021  · 291pp  · 85,822 words

Architects of Intelligence

by Martin Ford  · 16 Nov 2018  · 586pp  · 186,548 words

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

by Cass R. Sunstein  · 23 Aug 2006

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, From Home Renovations to Space Exploration

by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner  · 16 Feb 2023  · 353pp  · 97,029 words

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris  · 5 Oct 2010  · 412pp  · 115,266 words

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky  · 11 Mar 2015  · 1,737pp  · 491,616 words

Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

by Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland  · 15 Jan 2021  · 342pp  · 72,927 words

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

by Amy Webb  · 5 Mar 2019  · 340pp  · 97,723 words

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

by Daniel J. Levitin  · 18 Aug 2014  · 685pp  · 203,949 words

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle  · 18 Jun 2018  · 301pp  · 85,263 words

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

by Jane McGonigal  · 22 Mar 2022  · 420pp  · 135,569 words

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

by Amy B. Zegart  · 6 Nov 2021

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee  · 14 Nov 2023  · 381pp  · 113,173 words

How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

by Lee McIntyre  · 14 Sep 2021  · 407pp  · 108,030 words

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge  · 27 Feb 2018  · 267pp  · 72,552 words

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by Josh Kaufman  · 2 Feb 2011  · 624pp  · 127,987 words

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic  · 2 Jul 2008

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by David McRaney  · 29 Jul 2013  · 280pp  · 90,531 words

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

by Ray Kurzweil  · 25 Jun 2024

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

by Nate Silver  · 12 Aug 2024  · 848pp  · 227,015 words

The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy

by Tyler Cowen  · 25 May 2010  · 254pp  · 72,929 words

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

by Paul Scharre  · 23 Apr 2018  · 590pp  · 152,595 words

You Are Not So Smart

by David McRaney  · 20 Sep 2011  · 270pp  · 83,506 words

Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

by George Marshall  · 18 Aug 2014  · 298pp  · 85,386 words

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future

by Tom Chivers  · 12 Jun 2019  · 289pp  · 92,714 words

Wait: The Art and Science of Delay

by Frank Partnoy  · 15 Jan 2012  · 342pp  · 94,762 words

Willful: How We Choose What We Do

by Richard Robb  · 12 Nov 2019  · 202pp  · 58,823 words

Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz  · 9 May 2022  · 287pp  · 69,655 words

The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing

by Michael J. Mauboussin  · 14 Jul 2012  · 299pp  · 92,782 words

The Transhumanist Reader

by Max More and Natasha Vita-More  · 4 Mar 2013  · 798pp  · 240,182 words

Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes--But Some Do

by Matthew Syed  · 3 Nov 2015  · 410pp  · 114,005 words

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

by Samuel Arbesman  · 31 Aug 2012  · 284pp  · 79,265 words

Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors

by Wesley R. Gray and Tobias E. Carlisle  · 29 Nov 2012  · 263pp  · 75,455 words

Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

by James Barrat  · 30 Sep 2013  · 294pp  · 81,292 words

The Unpersuadables: Adventures With the Enemies of Science

by Will Storr  · 1 Jan 2013  · 476pp  · 134,735 words

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by Daniel Gardner  · 23 Jun 2009  · 542pp  · 132,010 words

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by Sabine Hossenfelder  · 11 Jun 2018  · 340pp  · 91,416 words

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by David N. Blank-Edelman  · 16 Sep 2018

Warnings

by Richard A. Clarke  · 10 Apr 2017  · 428pp  · 121,717 words

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

by Jonathan Haidt  · 13 Mar 2012  · 539pp  · 139,378 words

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by Christopher Wylie  · 8 Oct 2019

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