Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-01-14
Lex Fridman & Daniel Kahneman: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and decision-making.
Lex Fridman recommended Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, and discussed Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Recommended“he's the author of the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow that summarizes in an accessible way his research of several decades often in collaboration with Amos Tversky a cognitive biases prospect theory and happiness”
Where to get it
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Man's Search for Meaning
Discussed“Viktor Frankl in his book man's search for meaning I'm not sure if you've read describes his experience at the consecration a concentration camps during World War two as a way to describe that finding identifying a purpose in life”
Where to get it
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Passing Thinking, Fast and Slow
“he's the author of the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow that summarizes in an accessible way his research of several decades”