Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 05 July 2016 02:15:15AM 2 points [-]

The article is short enough that I'm confused about why you didn't just crosspost it here in its entirety.

Comment author: toomanymetas 05 July 2016 10:12:15PM 1 point [-]

That'd be unfair to the author.

Comment author: Elo 04 July 2016 06:41:48AM -2 points [-]

All the above points are minor in themselves. But together the shaky science, overconfidence and lazy storytelling add up to something substantial.

I disagree. I admit that Ariely and Kahneman may exaggerate or bend reality when they talk about the final results they found. So did the famous "robbers cave experiment" so did Mendel and his Pea counting.

The important part is that when you strip back the over-the-top rhetoric you still have a truthful valid point. Mendelian genetics and his punnet square tools are still used today. Even if he had to lie for the scientists at the time to take him seriously and accept the Submissions of his theory.

Comment author: toomanymetas 04 July 2016 11:34:46AM 1 point [-]

What truthful valid point? System 1 / 2 distinction?

Link: Re-reading Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow

11 toomanymetas 04 July 2016 06:32AM

"A bit over four years ago I wrote a glowing review of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. I described it as a “magnificent book” and “one of the best books I have read”. I praised the way Kahneman threaded his story around the System 1 / System 2 dichotomy, and the coherence provided  by prospect theory.

What a difference four years makes. I will still describe Thinking, Fast and Slow as an excellent book – possibly the best behavioural science book available. But during that time a combination of my learning path and additional research in the behavioural sciences has led me to see Thinking, Fast and Slow as a book with many flaws."

Continued here: https://jasoncollins.org/2016/06/29/re-reading-kahnemans-thinking-fast-and-slow/

Comment author: toomanymetas 31 May 2016 11:32:40AM 2 points [-]

I have been using anki to install something like Trigger Action Plans for more than half a year and it's been working great. Wrote a blog post about it: http://guzey.com/blog/thought-patterns-marginal

tldr: create a deck with max interval of 1 day.