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Is Self-knowledge Overrated? – The New Yorker

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A friend pointed out this article from Jonah Lehrer at The New Yorker about Daniel Kahneman’s new book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow” (already pre-ordered for my Kindle!). Some good lines from it: Unlike homo economicus, that imaginary species featured in macroeconomics textbooks, Kahneman and Tversky demonstrated that real people don’t deal with uncertainty by carefully evaluating […]

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