Epstein Secrets

ses date: Richard Nisbett, Richard Thaler & Sendhil Mullainathan, =ric Kandel, Michael Norton, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Joshua Greene, =alter Mischel, Steven Pinker, Nicholas Christakis, Rory Sutherland I spent the weekend with Danny who is aware of the project. I am not =howing responses to him until publicatio

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From: John Brockman Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 2:42 PM To: Epstein Jeffrey Subject: "On Kahneman" deadline Wednesday night - last call HOW HAS KAHNEMAN'S WORK INFLUENCED YOUR OWN? WHAT STEP DID IT MAKE POSSIBLE? http://www.edge.org/conversatio

hday greetings, =marmy tributes, personal reminiscences, etc. As always, it's about the =deas, not the person. Write something serious and worthy of Kahneman. = Say something new, true, original, and interesting (no previously =ublished material). Surprise me. No referencing politicians, =residents, prime

logy, Harvard Martin Nowak, Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University Danny Kahnemann — Psychology; Princeton Rob Goldstone — Psychology, Indiana Steve Pinker --- Psychology, Harvard Geoff Hinton --- Computer, Sci, U Toronto, Daniel Povinelli — Chimps University of Louisiana at Lafayette Stan Dehaene ---

ceton Rob Goldstone — Psychology, Indiana Steve Pinker --- Psychology, Harvard Geoff Hinton --- Compute

is to work with Brockman to do an "Edge" conference -- could start small and scale. Some of the names on Roger's list are people JB knows well, like Kahneman, who is absolutely genius, fascinating. As long as there's not much work involved for Brockman, this might work. And TED has lost the sort of scienc

a Stodden; W. Daniel Hillis; Brian Eno; Walter Mischel; Tim O'Reilly; Jennifer Jacquet; Jonathan Haidt; Freeman Dyson; Eric Kandel; Daniel Gilbert; Steven Pinker, Christopher Anderson; Larry Page; George Dyson; Ian McEwan; V.S. Ramachandran; Michael S. Gazzaniga; Sergey Brin; Salar Kamangac Sean Parker Elain

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el S. Gazzaniga; Sergey Brin; Salar Kamangac Sean Parker Elaine Page's; Anne Treisman; Martin Nowak; Nick Pritzker Cc: Daniel Kahneman Subject: Kahneman wins LA Times Book Prize LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES nonfiction categories... Biography • Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned, John A. Far

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ho have the most influence on their culture. And last =eek I made the biggest deal in publishing history for a serious =onfiction book on behalf of Kahneman ("The book of the century" =ccording to the Chinese publisher). --Your friend in the Middle East is coming to the US tomorrow and is =eportedly goin

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ate re Edge Master Class AT Google, Sci Foo JE, In terms of women, I don't see a problem with this list: Jennifer =acquet, Katinka, Anne Treisman (Kahneman's wife) - no problem. Margaret =evi a savvy political scientist and a savvy lady, replaced Kosslyn at =tanford. Finally, Barbara Mellars, Tetlock's

summit conference yesterday. It was a big success. Not at all academic and what TED could be, but isn't. Steve looks stressed. But isn't he always. Pinker, Gilbert, Kahneman, were among the speakers. Sergey invited me to dinner at his house last night. He's cooking with ideas. Was in Cambridge for a w

yesterday. It was a big success. Not at all academic and what TED could be, but isn't. Steve looks stressed. But isn't he always. Pinker, Gilbert, Kahneman, were among the speakers. Sergey invited me to dinner at his house last night. He's cooking with ideas. Was in Cambridge for a week doing a set of

(mug, pen, etc.) and subsequently state that they are willing to sell the mug for much more than those who were not given the mug are willing to pay (Kahneman, Knetsch, & Thaler, 1990). In the behavioral economics literature, the endowment effect has sometimes been explained by loss aversion, which is when

Prisoner's Dilemma has famously been used as an explanation for the evolution of cooperation among non-kin (Axelrod & Hamilton, 1981; Dawkins, 2006; Pinker, 2003; Trivers, 1971). In this section, we show how the same basic model can be used to explain many of the quirky features of our pro-social prefer-