Tag: Gut Feelings (2007)

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post

Erik J. Larson
Date
August 1, 2025

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Psychology

Tagged
Artificial intelligence (puzzles vs. mysteries), Enron scandal, Gerd Gigerenzer, Gregert Trevertony, Gut Feelings (2007), Malcolm Gladwell, McCarthyism, What the Dog Saw (2009)}

Mistaking the World for a Puzzle Risks a New McCarthyism

_{In Part 2, I look at the imaginary world we invent when we succumb to puzzle thinking} _{Erik J. Larson
August 1, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Psychology}

It’s imaginary because the clues that matter — why people starve, why peace fails, why the planet overheats — are not hidden in larger and larger datasets.