My friend Elie Yudkowsky, an extraordinary thinker from the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, gave me a copy of his paper Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global ...

Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...

Ignorance may be bliss, but partial ignorance—or at least ignoring a glut of information and going instead with instinct—may be the best way to make certain vital decisions. So goes the argument put ...

Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...

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Most of us live in a world of full inboxes, shifting deadlines and a confusing array of acronyms and buzzwords. We often need heuristics (a mental shortcut or rule of thumb) and biases as a way of ...

If you’re an 80s person like me, heuristics might make you think of that British band that sang "Sweet Dreams are made of This." That’s Eurythmics, not heuristics! Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky ...

Stanley Milgram, an American social psychologist, discovered through his research that people trust those they view as experts in their sphere of influence. He documented and proved the correlation ...

Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...