This comes up a lot in Aydin Paladin's videos. She constantly cites papers, but half the time has to say "btw this was a single study of like 20 college kids and has never been successfully replicated, but every news network will quote it like it's gospel."

If you want to hear about Thinking Fast and Slow 29:08

Cable management, one of the most important things

1:22:55 "maybe the real experts were the friends we made along the way" "Dammit Daniel Kahneman, *NO!"*

I am so enjoying this book club 😅 The fake people part broke me

That was fun! This book unlocked a whole new level of vocal impressions out of Grey!

There really is something going on with the unmemorable-ness of The Effective Executive. I had no memory of it being reviewed, even though I've listened to most of Cortex, so I searched the episode and listened to it again. The start of the podcast which is about other topics felt familiar, I had memory of hearing it before. The end of the podcast was also familiar. The section of the podcast with the book review felt way less familiar. I think I must have listened to it before, because I don't think past me would have skipped it, and there were a few sentences I think I've heard before, but my brain did not retain that section in the say way it retained the rest of the episode.

I think I just found a nice thing to play in the background congratulations you will now be playing in the background when I'm doing homework You're replacing songs by Agnes obel so you got some pretty big shoes to fill

Hey cognitive psychologist here. The discussion starting in 1:03:53 is very misleading. While the examples given probably don't replicate they are definitely not core examples of priming. Priming in the way it is described in the book has been replicated at least thousands of times and is very robust. It is very good you are raising awareness to the replication crisis but you should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. In general most of the experiments in the book has been replicated.

I know this was recorded probably a month ago but: the best way to resolve a major synchronization issue with DropBox is to wipe to local part and let it redownload everything. Then its just a matter of downloading the data, otherwise it has to check and compare (and maybe download) each and every file. Our database is 4TB (Small firm of 4 people) and I can tell you, its quicker to wipe. 20TB is quite a lot though so you might have to split it in "Active stuff" and "Archive" and keep the archive not synced constantly. Good luck!

I can’t help but feel like the primary issues mentioned with the book are due to mixing epistemologies and the inherent contradictions that can sometimes resultantly occur . Maths (reason), social (empirical).

I can't do it anymore, but the funny thing about the coin flip example is that when I was younger I actually _was_ really good at flipping coins. If I started on heads and flipped it with roughly the same amount of force I could get heads at better than 50/50. I don't really have that kind of dexterity anymore but I bet you could get similar results from a machine.

1:24:20 Grey just sounds so done with this at this point, and all the points before and after

Having read the book completely I see its usefulness, but the best part of the work is the summary at the end of each chapter. It's sad because I feel that the book is full of useful information that we desperately need in today's society, it's just wrapped up in monotony.

CORTEX DAY

Thank God Myke answered the bat and the ball question, because I could not get passed "the balls 10c, the bats a dollar". Might just be that I'm a very visual thinker, but I could NOT move past that on my own

I never knew the term for it but I have been aware that in the last decade or more they've been disproving so many social science tests; Grey brings up a very good point that there are more people now days who are able to retry an old test than there were even back in the 2000's. Oh, I want to add that I've always felt 'social science' stuff was a bit suspect even before I started learning about how a proper theory should be tested.

Julia Galef does such a better job at explaining the two types of thinking in Scout Mindset (it's a much easier read as well). She also explains Beyesian thinking way better than the fake people examples Kehneman uses.

Echoes echoes. 💥

Hi Grey!

Seems like Grey needs help from Linus Tech tips.

Resisting the urge to comment prematurely

i thought of soap instead of soup 😭

Illinoise? Oy....

Ahh, replication crisis is the new way to call into question someone's results as still an unproven hypothesis. Even in ancient Rome people were complaining when Philosophers turned out to be wrong.

Channel got monetized ig, I got an ad during an ad

Do you do autographs?

The linda fake person example might be mathamaticly wrong if her personality make's her extremly likley to go into social justice, let's say 75% the the probobility of bank teller + social justice is (p*0.75) and probobility of just bank teller is (p*0.25) so bank teller + social justice is more likley is she has more then a 50% chance of going into social justice

The last backup of all of the somewhat important files on my PC was 1.6 KB of compressed data.

I feel better about giving up part at the fake people part

1:32:00 I see what the probability problem they were trying to do with Lynda, however, they did it wrong. It is not Bank teller vs bank teller and feminist (A or A+B). What they actually stated is that A was true no matter what and therefore irrelevant. You could argue that A is not inherent but that would make them both false anyway. Meaning it really worked out to whether B was True or False. Meaning Feminist vs Non-Feminist. The crux is whether or not they are a feminist, that is the only variable. What they should have done is A or B + C. Then try to convince you that B and C seem more likely than A. The difference is that they wanted to convey that a single variable is far more likely to be true than 2 variables. A good way of realizing how they got it wrong is to keep adding "A's" You know, a White, french, dog-loving, banker vs a White, french, dog-loving, banker, feminist. By adding everything else they are, it doesn't suddenly make the second one further unlikely than the original.

1:09:48

Someone should get Linus from LTT get a storage solution for Grey. I bet there's a solution for Grey's storage requirements

The correct answer should be, it's a word problem. The total cost is one dollar and ten cents. The bat costs one dollar, COMMA, more than the ball. Since the ball costs ten cents, the bat does indeed cost more than the ball. All correct and accounted for :D

CGPGrey needs a consult with Linus Tech Tips about storage.

For what it's worth, in interviews Kahneman makes it very clear that knowing about system 1 doesn't do much to mitigate its biasing effects, and that he doesn't think of himself as less susceptible to bias than people in general - in fact, he points out that the knowledge might make you overconfident and therefore *more* susceptible to bias. I don't remember if the book points this out or not, to be fair. It's kind of the whole point of the book that system 2 is smart and system 1 is dumb, not that Daniel Kahneman (and/or you, dear reader) is smart and other people are dumb. Regarding the fictitious people: maybe don't take it so personally. That part of the podcast was not very fun to listen to. (no offense intended; as you pointed out, as Kahneman pointed out, your reactions to that are pretty normal)

Helloooo

This isn’t the first time something happened to greys computer

What do you guys think of Black Mirror? I find it to be good at pulling ideas from other places but not great at bringing those ideas to their logical ends. Although some episodes are very good, like the Ai horror game which is very much real in a basic idea today.

At this point a service like AWS Glacier might be worth it to you, maybe a script that moves a few files automaticly each month, the delete them off of dropbox after a while

Can't wait for the 8752nd year of cortex when they just literally don't stop raising money.

38:05 that append to me : "il manuale di autodistruzione" the self distruction manual wich was basically weak anti-comformism to the point where it advised you to do stuff wich could damage relations , and other pepole around you , i tought i bought it thinking that it would have been intresting but then i realized that damn , this sh*t sucks , and i was tempted to drop it but my gut reaction was "no ! you bought the whole book , you'll end this whole book!"

Why not make strorinator like linus from LTT?

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Hello I look in on this podcast every now and again. I always leave thinking there could be so much more. A little bit of disappointment. m