We're generally overconfident

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Saddened to hear about the passing of Daniel Kahneman. A Nobel Laureate, his insights on randomness, luck, and the workings of the mind have had a profound impact on many, including myself. His book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is a masterpiece that has touched the lives of countless individuals interested in psychology, economics, and spirituality. Rest in peace, Daniel Kahneman. Your legacy will continue to inspire generations to come. #DanielKahneman #ThinkingFastAndSlow

https://twitter.com/nidhinvalsanips/status/1773566597212594486?t=bZOYjxJwRP9jScCX1cxIgQ&s=19

@nobelprize_org winner Kahneman's book Thinking Fast Slow absolutely blew my mind and changed my understanding of how humans think. It is necessary reading for all. The world is a less intelligent place without this man. #bookrecommendations #book #bookreview #books #nonfiction

https://twitter.com/1_davidhill/status/1773662165423071464?t=8-rU-U25nwG0FSG1PGOUBw&s=19

In 2016, we hosted Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman in our lab. His encouragement to pursue real-life problems through science and ask high-risk questions continues to inspire us. RIP, scientific giant!

https://twitter.com/AviSchroeder/status/1773678650681905389?t=JrM_9pm2DvrcIuh8WkS8UQ&s=19

Daniel Kahneman, who changed psychology and economics forever, dies at 90.

Thanks for everything.

We remember him in 10 great quotes:

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know. We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments. So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

https://twitter.com/wisdom_theory/status/1773016425394782555?t=blq1ZlCn6GmdduDjjM2qMA&s=19

If you also haven’t read Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” and don’t want to read a whole book, read his 2003 “Maps of Bounded Rationality” instead. It’s a publication that summarizes the same ideas in his own words. The book, of course, goes into much more detail and tells more stories about how this is relevant to your own life. I highly recommend reading the full book, but if you definitely don't intend to, then go read this paper.

https://twitter.com/AnnaLeptikon/status/1773420839028871646?t=MF96azE-ReuaicrQtKa3QA&s=19

Daniel Kahneman passed away at age 90

His work in Behavioral Finance changed the world 

The Human Side of Decision Making is a must read. Read the entire document here:

https://twitter.com/QCompounding/status/1773459791408472324?t=SeT63ktMEwV-BYE1QGas-Q&s=19

10 lessons from Thinking Fast and Slow:

https://twitter.com/QCompounding/status/1773637437555720643?t=edFvGu5VV4MIvliAoPQlhg&s=19

This man died 2 days ago. Daniel Kahneman. An intellectual giant of the 20th century. Along with Amon Tversky he literally changed the world. I would recommend reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. It will make you question everything and change the way you think…..

https://twitter.com/TurloughDonnell/status/1773673597346664530?t=H2-o_zNEGjmFmYvyJsFcAQ&s=19

Danny Kahneman

One of the things I loved most about Danny was his power of observation, and ability to reason about how we all make decisions.  He had a way to describe an element of how we think, that made is so clear and intuitive, that I could not understand how it was possible that I did not see things his way all along.

#DanielKahneman

https://twitter.com/danariely/status/1773682927248806250?t=aMH2EYMRTucLWNmJFNrBWQ&s=19 

Today, we have lost one of the greatest contemporary thinkers. 

Daniel Kahneman shattered the glass palace of science and became famous worldwide in 2011 with the publication of "Thinking, Fast and Slow”, in which he popularized the dual-process theory. This theory suggests that human decisions arise from a complex interplay between two cognitive systems: one more intuitive and the other more deliberative. Despite many critiques and refinements, this theory remains one of the main reference points for scholars studying human decisions. 

But this was not Kahneman's only contribution. His 1979 paper in Econometrica, introducing prospect theory, is one of the most cited articles in economics and is one of the main reasons he, a psychologist, was able to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. In this paper, Kahneman and Tversky introduce a utility function aimed at explaining how people make decisions under risk. Personally, I found this article to be one of the most inspiring I have ever read. The day I read it, I understood that human behavior could be captured through a mathematical formula. I was a pure mathematician at the time, now I study human decisions. 

In another article from 1986, Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler introduced an economic game that later became known as the “dictator game”, which has become the official measure of human altruism. The game is very simple: you have 10 dollars and the recipient has nothing. You can give any amount to the receiver, ranging from 0 to 10. The recipient is passive and only gets what you decide to give. How much would you give?

But this is not even the tip of the iceberg. Any summary of his work would inevitably be incomplete. I have just gone on his Google Scholar page. His work has more than half a million citations! He reshaped psychology and economics by inventing entirely new fields of research.

https://twitter.com/ValerioCapraro/status/1773037951049495005?t=KcD46NxPquqTWUZW9O4FXQ&s=19

Empathy. “A healed femur is the earliest sign of civilization.” —Margaret Mead. #poster #posterdesign #empathy #margaretmead #GraphicDesign

https://twitter.com/codeswitchtweet/status/1762164141572178402?t=tthG82SM6_iJxsxoWmTkmw&s=19

Margaret Mead was once asked, ‘Do you think that a single individual can make a difference?’ And she pointed out it’s the only thing that ever has made a difference. All people have to do is to change their minds. 

Roger Payne, A Life Among Whales

prismatic sky 

aliveonallchan.

https://twitter.com/op109/status/1762079356187254985?t=Quci9RCeN4malvfSY-KvsQ&s=19

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873 – December 30, 1962) - The Great Chain of Being (1936)

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) - The Call of Cthulhu (1928)

James Ephraim Lovelock (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) - The Quest for Gaia (1975)

#SELFsince2005

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1773392429452071108?t=CYhD37KI4SyAb6ebde87GA&s=19

Reading diverse authors is part of intellectual development but it's only by reading Sri Aurobindo that one acquires a balanced worldview. It's not necessary to agree with him but the emphasis on unseen forces and interconnectedness helps to understand ourselves and world better.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1773596172952670602?t=bSCu3GQR-Yty2xL4MhQmDw&s=19

Stand up for what is right

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

In the past, BR Ambedkar had observed:

"Indeed, the ideal Hindu must be like a rat living in his own hole, refusing to have any contact with others. There is an utter lack among the Hindus of what the sociologists call ‘consciousness of kind.’ There is no Hindu consciousness of kind. In every Hindu, the consciousness that exists is the consciousness of his caste. That is the reason why the Hindus cannot be said to form a society or a nation.”

The BJP-RSS’s broad-based approach during the Ram Janmabhoomi movement has repudiated Ambedkar’s scintillating thesis, remaking Indian politics and, more crucially, Hindu society.

This heroic mission drew from every part of Hindudom, arranging each Hindu shoulder to shoulder, chanting the same cries, and exalting them all as equal devotees of their Lord Ram.

In this great yajna of a new era, all Hindus were tasked as participants in a sacrifice for the ages.

From: theemissary.co/in-rams-name-a…

https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1771017868039090535?t=Oe8NXS7kXc5e9Ze9Wy-q0w&s=19

I don’t think the Indian middle class has suddenly become communal. It has always harboured religious bigotry but it needed a push to throw off its cloak of tolerance and secular views. With its blatant communal bias, the ruling BJP has encouraged the middle class to be itself. Being bigoted is no longer a shame in new India; it is rather cool. #BJP #Modi #RSS

https://twitter.com/tnrags/status/1771376851904012680?t=euHuk7prL8sP5pUMLaPW5w&s=19

Anyone who compares India with China has at least zero understanding of one of them. India is a hellhole. You have thousand times more freedoms in China than you have in India.

https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1771418718460915845?t=uhI_1gfbfYzkNo625MX1UQ&s=19

India ranks among the top countries in being stressed. That is what you get when you are irrational and morally relativistic, which lead to an existential crisis, atomized people and no-trust.

https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1770644373711081641?t=44p_59z50TzKP9-QJ6TOSg&s=19

Hindu majoritarianism finds its roots in envy a segment of them have for the community spirit that Sikhs and Muslims have. But nothing makes them feel more inferior than Christianity. As the leaders have worsened so has the feeling of inferiority.

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https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1770275574298132560?t=GPgf9KftuofWuXE3152yaw&s=19

Ironically, this is true. Hinduism can encompass any value. That, alas, leaves it with no value that it values. Its effect on the mind is making all moral values relative and failing to comprehend the differences in degrees and the very concept of objectivity.

https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1769665887856922670?t=pUFy2_vvYwwnFtAy9JUc9g&s=19

Political correctness has made people of European ethnicity culturally blind, at least in how they vote. When the honor culture is gone, which was a pillar of Western civilization, "satan" will rule the roost. There is no shortage of evil characters. What you need for civilization is people who are prepared to stand up for what is right. That is increasingly gone. The US is a lovely place, perhaps the best in the world. But its foundations are more gone than that of any other Western country. Political correctness is the US approach. The British can still be very politically incorrect. China is improving rapidly, but I don't think China is ready to take over world leadership. Ruthless meritocracy, however, must be reimposed in the West.

https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1769175167471624408?t=LvU8Dd75j8mIi_YXa9E4nw&s=19

Auroville criminal nexus - This video explains the land mafia nexus, economic offences, modus operandi of hiding corruption so far, attacking people & ruling over them. @EduMinOfIndia

@AmitShahOffice @CVCIndia @PMOIndia @dpradhanbjp @rajbhavan_tn

https://twitter.com/VikramRamTweets/status/1771365936806912495?t=oxUGEkACxkwqtwfZF7W5oQ&s=19

Director of Aurobindo Pharma, Sarath Reddy, gets arrested in Delhi liquor scam. He turns approver.

Aurobindo Pharma donates Rs 55 cr to BJP through electoral bonds as exposed by the SC order.

Arvind Kejriwal gets arrested in Delhi liquor scam. These are unrelated events!

https://twitter.com/mkvenu1/status/1771394765151748334?t=U-aVuBVQshAtj-tyhvC1Zg&s=19 

What @ArvindKejriwal has done is to muddy the ground forever for any other educated person who genuinely wants to get into politics for public service, with his lies, nautanki, autocratic behaviour and blatant corruption!

https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/1771122183710064993?t=T-x6IiERnKw6oUZCutQvhw&s=19

@ShefVaidya mam he is a true gentlemen infact a gem that no one wants to wear not bcz of expensiveness but it will harm the same hand that adore him.

What wrong has he done apart from being pursue all the characteristics of a good politician at the lightening speed like speak lies with confidence, whingering, breach of trust, promote lawlessness, flipping ideologies like costumes, appeasement of muslims, sympathize with destructive forces (Khalistanis), alluring public by announcing freebies and criticize HINDUISM every now and then.  

He is a blessing in disguise.

https://twitter.com/MyMarshal10/status/1771130015767494993?t=4_7hxlY135J1YXn20dICgQ&s=19 

I think Bharat should do away with the colonial, feudal practice of addressing judges as ‘your honour’ ‘milord’ or ‘your lordship’. It is a practice that dates back to the British Raj and reeks deeply of slavery and white supremacy over the ‘unwashed natives’ of India. Let’s start referring to judges as ‘महोदय’ or simply, ‘judge’. If you agree, please repost. #NoMoreMilord #MahodayNotMilord

Not our problem what the British do anymore. They can call their judges anything they want, fact is, in India it WAS a white supremacist thing historically.

https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/1769919340542124298?t=v0tMsxFqm3clGUV4ynQD4g&s=19

Duh, how is calling some paid public servant in a black robe ‘your honour’ or ‘my lord’ ‘a mark of obedience to the rule of law’? Are you SURE you are a ‘senior fellow at ICSSR’? Do they have such shockingly low standards?

Not really. The judge is simply a person paid to do his job, which is to interpret the law. No one is ‘Maay baap’ or shouldn’t be in a democracy!

https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/1770010783185011147?t=PlZO3Th3DLWOfvHaiP6o4g&s=19

You don’t understand the nuances, a judge in not just an individual, he represents law, the court and a system 

He is not “simply a person“ he represents knowledge character morality sense of fairness and justice that’s why he is respected in some courts lawyers begin their arguments with “this court …..” 

https://twitter.com/BoregowdaShivar/status/1770011995485393010?t=i3vhTfhuSuAgd9MV-5ueMw&s=19

Bring back standards. Bring back TABOOS. Bring back exclusive clubs that are almost impossible to join. Blurring all boundaries has been a disaster for the human race. Bring back the moral compass, severe judgements, a theological sense of right and wrong

https://twitter.com/oldbooksguy/status/1770852281719664899?t=HDZJQYlJ8UEqU6rrhHtb8A&s=19

know this gonna be unpopular but i so totally prefer the book—which instead of questioning its own mythology, chooses instead to question spectacle, heroism, and whether even the perfect human should still be king—to this perfectly spectacular, heroic, kingly movie when you do that hollywood thing of staging your own leftist self-criticism so you can defy it with a soaring affirmation of the mythology of divine rule, you are, i think, missing the whole point of dune

which doesn’t question if the mythology is real (it is) but if it’s *good* the movie does what hollywood’s done since demille 100 years ago: stage a conflict between secular rationalism and divine mythology as a conflict between west and east, coming down hard on orientalist tropes of the simple, intuitive, mystical men of the desert

the book does not.

https://twitter.com/divine_economy/status/1764365203800486052?t=ZXWivloIx0Cc8qD8e2xngg&s=19

My brain has been whirring since discovering the actual premise of dune : even if you have an amazing king, should we still have rulers in the first place ? 

In a nutshell this is why crypto is a rebellion - we replace rulers with smart contracts changeable by consensus

As long as we have diversity and live in a collective I believe we'll have need for rules

Since 2 people can both be extremely evolved and still have very different opinions on what we should do, so there has to always be a mechanism for deciding which way to go

And where you have rules, you have need for their enforcement

And where you need enforcement, you need rulers

Smart contracts are what helps us break out of this vicious cycle, like @ErikVoorhees pointed out at permissionless

twitter.com/Permissionless…

https://twitter.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1769422875289919693?t=rNgpBBKId9VGQYbMz0h_Ow&s=19

In an ideal state of true 'self'-governance, even rules don't exist, as the evolution of a Higher Consciousness in every human discards d need for external regulation. Auroville city in India was an audacious attempt at this in d 60s. Lng way 2 go, until then, rules over rulers!

https://twitter.com/NidhiHarihar/status/1769429525363057058?t=9HY9uMFvHRjY-saqRFwOCg&s=19

Stop weaponizing historical suffering

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

I used to wonder how people could deny the Holocaust. Now that I see people denying the best documented massacre in history that happened just a few months ago, I no longer have to wonder. There's just one thing I don't understand: is this mental illness or pure evil?

https://twitter.com/VerminusM/status/1768083722081882622?t=qcI2XDmNRgd5elXmOOcprQ&s=19

Took me a while, at least a decade to understand how in the digital age of photographs, videos, telephone, newspapers and witness testimonies, the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits and rational Muslims was denied by the "Jagmohan" canard spread by intellectuals, journalists and civil society. 

The pattern never changed. It's always the ones who make a career out of social justice.

https://twitter.com/arshiaunis/status/1768136918212980885?t=jbDxdLz8FuwghTOXZF6AOw&s=19

Historical atrocities like the holocaust should be approached with reverence and a commitment to truth. 

The Holocaust represents one of the darkest chapters in human history, and its unique horror should not be diminished or likened to other events lightly, especially ones that have been fabricated. 

Stop weaponizing historical suffering to evade scrutiny for being shitty.

Eventually, the world will know anyway.

https://twitter.com/MChase00/status/1768104283713495126?t=OJ8Gbg2ko6gyGFhlm1tjKQ&s=19

Nobody knows what Jesus said.

All we have is texts written centuries later. 

Nobody knows what Siddhartha Gautama said.

All we have is texts written centuries later.

Nobody knows what Muhammad heard.

All we have is texts written centuries later.

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1767790226603168071?t=tyCm8e23Wlk1ghirjhzypg&s=19

To make vegetarians happy, I wrote this factual article.

Eat your jackfruit and read....

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1767816726924742910?t=XE9neB2l0h4Lg13ypxu-GA&s=19

Right now, new history is being written for Indians. Based on astronomical information from ancient texts,... This, however, is not unique to India, or to the 21st century. In the 19th century, some Europeans argued that the Bible was real history,... In China, there is a movement to prove that the Bible is not a Western text,... Imagined history has always served ideologies. Colonial powers have sought to present pre-colonial states as barbaric and savage to justify their imperial outreach... In India today, the rising tide of Hindutva ideology needs to show that all that happened before its arrival was colonial, Western, and anti-Hindu. Only that will establish the new rulers of the land as saviours, and justify their acts of dismantling institutions.

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/devdutt-pattanaik-it-is-not-just-hindus-who-love-an-imagined-past-2934318 

One thing all education ministers under Nehru aimed to do—make Indians doubt ancient values

3 days ago — The Nehruvian Consensus which moved the Indian nation-state for almost 40 years, shattered and demolished the ideas of the Civilisational ...In any case, the academic curriculum was manoeuvred to showcase the medieval period in a positive light. On the other hand, the ancient period—when most of the Indian literature was written and arts, culture and science flourished—was deliberately sidelined. The sultans of Delhi were portrayed as the emperors of India though there were many big and independent states flourishing in different parts of India at the same time.

Hindu Dharma is not a nationality

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

We don't need No Thought Control! My piece on Ideological Defiance in #Karnataka #Textbooks

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1766749156767662514?t=Hp167dXyNceSDK5KBSBJLg&s=19

What we have had in India thus is a see-saw political struggle over education, with different policies being subjected to the winds of ideological preference.

The BJP's emphasis on radicalising educational philosophy towards ancient philosophers rather than modern free-thinkers is a core aspect of the ideological struggle in the field of education. Karnataka and other southern states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala have had reformist thinkers and social movements against social inequities. Karnataka's dominant Lingayat community follows the teachings of heterodox guru Basava, and it has even sought the declaration of anti-caste Lingayatism as a distinct religion.

What is clear is that modern democracy cannot be meaningful without freedom of expression and open-minded debates, and the debates must include the thoughts of those who have questioned inequality and injustice, which have been part of the ground reality of social injustice and conservatism. While words like "ethos" speak of the intended thoughts of ancient teachers, in the here and now, we need to encourage a contextual approach that encourages critical thinking, which goes hand in hand with science.

https://www.thequint.com/opinion/karnataka-siddaramaiah-textbooks-reversal-chandrashekara-kambara-girish-karnad-devidasa-mariappa-bhatta-ananthamurthy-rao#read-more

The Nehruvian Consensus which moved the Indian nation-state for almost 40 years, shattered and demolished the ideas of the Civilisational Consensus and the Gandhian Consensus both of which had spiritualism and the Indian civilisational value system at their core. The nouveau values of the Nehruvian Consensus were popularised by the ruling class, their followers and the intelligentsia of the time to maintain hegemony.11 Nehru himself believed in the socialist and secular value system and tried to propagate it through the educational and cultural realms by appointing people with similar understanding. His daughter continued this tradition. A glance at the education ministers— the ministry also used to include the culture department—reveals a distinct pattern that many find astonishing, even unbelievable. 'Modian Consensus', Swadesh Singh

https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/one-thing-all-education-ministers-under-nehru-aimed-to-do-make-indians-doubt-ancient-values/1995326/

The tension is present in Savarkar himself...a legacy of European territorial nationalism.. which even a deep thinker like Savarkar could not parry fully. Hence, his (unnecessary) tying up of Hindu Dharma to India's territory... Compared to that Dr Ambedkar or Shri Aurobindo have more clarity. Shri Aurobindo is far more explicit... A non-Hindu Bharat loses all meaning for him.

That even the Hindu Mahasabha, under Savarkar, granted cultural educational rights to muslims (Art25-30 of today) is indicative. The pure, mere territory based thinking has been fatal to Hindu civilization. Mere territorial nationalism is a misstatement of Hindu concerns. Deoband too was against Pakistan, but it was for an islami Akhand. Vivek Ramaswamy or Tulsi Gabbard's pitrubhumi and perhaps even punyabhumi is not Bharat. Are they Hindu or not? First is Dharma, next comes territory. Then precisely no? Tying up Dharma with India's territory. Not needed. Hindu Dharma is civilizational. It is not a nationality at all.

https://twitter.com/lalashwa/status/1766353902352605392?t=GJLUdVXnp5iUL0yxfxBamw&s=19

When Hindu thought leaders as Swami Vivekananda or Shri Aurobindo began exposition of Hindu Darshan in western terminologies, the westerners labelled it as 'Neo-Hinduism which draws from western values' claiming actual Hinduism doesnt have egalitarian liberal values.

But here /1 is the twisted side:

The ghulam Hindu (Neo-Hindu in article) who feels decolonised today in the wake of decolonial movement, but still enjoys the occasional pet by the master, has added in 'masala' that these 'western values' were all present in traditional Hinduism to extent /2 the extent that their degenerates practices (touted as liberal) are also claimed reflected in Traditional Hinduism.

Its extremely hard to realise the levels of colonialism & conditioning of Abrahamic framework & euro-centric history with marxist cocktail has inebriated the mind.

https://twitter.com/KuldeepGaurav7/status/1766754668125016361?t=ZpwmPnqxkK2I0C5_XmGwYw&s=19

European Contempt for Hindu Society Ingested by Neo-Hindus:

"The Neo-Hindu was so enamoured and brainwashed by the European model that he knows no way of reform except that propagated by Western Civilisation."

- @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/ruchirsharma_1/status/1766737527719776589?t=_iEv1RZ9ydECIVRuvNZhnw&s=19

That there is room for reform in Hindu society as there is in every other society goes without saying. But the Neo-lndian reformer knows no way of reform except that of Western Civilization. Burning with zeal, he loudly proclaims the gospel of female emancipation on Western lines, and girds up to lift up the benighted females by making them race with the males along the paths of University education and Western Civilization little reflecting upon the goal to which they are likely to lead and to which they are already leading in the West.

https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/european-contempt-for-hindu-society-ingested-by-neo-hindus

What is it with Jordan Peterson and all his faux piety and anti-rationalism? His old lectures on clinical psychiatry are actually incredibly good, but somewhere along the way he seems to have lost the plot.

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1766724359467811254?t=NKavR3u5HXRXV73CyXBzow&s=19