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Daniel kahneman and amos tversky, the israeli psychologists whose partnership produced the. Danny focused on how one would undo certain events that caused regret. Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason. Lewis has found the granddaddy of all stories about counterintuition, because dr. Kahneman and tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. Jan 30, 2017 reading michael lewis excellent new book, the undoing project, about the amazing and eventually problematic collaboration between kahneman and tversky brought back a flood of nostalgia but also reminded me of some problems with trying to extend their work.
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