The Atlantic (gift link) just published on the profound problems with Behavioral Econ: https://t.co/4yUTLoAVse
in 2015 a Nature paper literally titled “Undecidability of the spectral gap” showed that an important physical quantity—the difference in energy between ground state and the initial excited state of a material—is formally undecidable. It is also triggered by recursion (basically, they encode questions about spectral gaps into spectral gaps). [Quoted from Erik Hoel's 2024 post on Consciousness as a Godel Sentence]
Hope to make it for these topics. First met Eliezer when he spoke at PARC: "Think Crazy: Heuristics, Biases, and the New Science of Human Error" (2009) I told EY that I was the "kind of psychologist who can't help people", but he pointed to this community as having been greatly helped by research psychologists.
Scott's piece on Behavioral Econ was published after the first post-Covid meetup at UCBerkeley in '21. Since it's my field (experimental psych re-branded to BE once Kahneman won the Nobel), he asked me at the picnic if I would take a look at this piece in draft.
Never compare your work to another writer's. My own failure to follow this maxim caused me considerable distress. Scott's weekend writeup was so typically thorough & penetrating, teaching me details I'd never learned at Stanford. But I will not compare his post to the schmatta I cobbled to earn my PhD.
Rashomon (Kurosawa in Japanese) epistemics of 5 people who share an experience but have disjoint recollections