Feelings, Nothing More than Feelings, About AI 2023-11-14T18:50:24.275Z

Comment by PaulBecon on Lighthaven Sequences Reading Group #11 (Tuesday 11/19) · 2024-11-14T01:18:48.062Z · LW · GW

Hope to make it for these topics. First met Eliezer when he spoke at PARC:  "Think Crazy: Heuristics, Biases, and the New Science of Human Error" (2009) I told EY that I was the "kind of psychologist who can't help people", but he pointed to this community as having been greatly helped by research psychologists.

Scott's piece on Behavioral Econ was published after the first post-Covid meetup at UCBerkeley in '21. Since it's my field (experimental psych re-branded to BE once Kahneman won the Nobel), he asked me at the picnic if I would take a look at this piece in draft.
Never compare your work to another writer's. My own failure to follow this maxim caused me considerable distress. Scott's weekend writeup was so typically thorough & penetrating, teaching me details I'd never learned at Stanford. But I will not compare his post to the schmatta I cobbled to earn my PhD.