Did you know that it’s quite easy to trick people into falsely remembering a crime that they never committed? This ep unpacks research showing how malleable and shapeable human memory is: rather than being a video recording, it’s a constantly reconstructed experience, influenced by a range of emotions and other factors. Please sub, like and… Continue reading Memory hacking: Gaslighting you into a false crime confession
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“I think, therefore I err”: An article about ‘good errors’, heuristics and intelligent systems
“Every intelligent system makes errors”, so said Gerd Gigerenzer. Here’s a couple of page extracts from a 2005 paper. Not sure if I’ll summarise it or not (it’s really interesting, but tough to capture in a summary…) The paper: · Challenges the rationalistic and normative ideal as cognition as purely a logical and rational one, ignoring… Continue reading “I think, therefore I err”: An article about ‘good errors’, heuristics and intelligent systems
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