What Daniel Kahneman thinks about evolutionary biology

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Psychologist and Nobel laureate (1934 to 2024); shared the 2002 Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences for integrating psychological research into economics; with Amos Tversky, developed prospect theory and the study of heuristics and biases.

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12 Oct 2019

Our readingNoise is useless variability: unlike variability that has a selection mechanism and feedback, as in evolution, nothing is learned from it and it is costly.

Their wordswe call that noises useless variability I mean variability can be very useful if you have a selection mechanism and some feedback so evolution is built up variability but of course it's useful but noise among underwriters is useless there's nothing nothing gets learned there's no feedback it's just noise and it's costly

↗Daniel Kahneman | The Knowledge Project #68youtube.com 9th of 12 in this recording