Your answer reveals how you see the world – and the common error that hampers our decision making. In an extract from his new book, psychologist Richard Nisbett reveals the ‘mindware’ to help us think smarter
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (~100 Models Explained)
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence? | Quanta Magazine
Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition.
The Irrational Decision
How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality—and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment
The Second Brain That Grows Smarter and Lives on your Computer
How a spark from Andrej Karpathy, app called Obsidian, and “The Curator”, the app I built are changing the way I think.
Tinkered Thinking
Daily, snackable writings to spur changes in thinking.Building a blueprint for a better brain by tinkering with the code.
What Makes Us Smart?
Human creativity does not solely rely on our individual cognitive abilities, but instead emerges from the recombination of ideas, practices, and approaches that result from social interactions and id...
Opinion | Can You Get Smarter? (Published 2015)
There is much that you can do to keep cognitively sharp.
AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns
AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic."
AGIHound on Twitter / X
"Demis Hassabis says our brains are likely to be approximate Turing machines."Dear Lord. This Alan Turing worship never ends. It's a cult. 🤦♂️I research the visual system of the brain. I've come to understand that the most important principle of intelligence is the precise… https://t.co/isLnLqjFkw— AGIHound (@TrueAIHound) May 5, 2026
Thinking Fast, Slow, Artificially: AI and Your Brain
AI can boost your decisions — or quietly undermine them. Wharton researchers introduce a new theory of cognition that every leader needs to understand.
AI Sycophancy and Decisions
We examine whether sycophantic AI advice distorts decisions. Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in eco
Abeba Birhane on Twitter / X
a classic case of “the human mind is afforded less complexity than is owed, and the computer is afforded more wisdom than is due.” Baria and Cross (2021)that "vibe" is at the core of what makes us human. it defies formalization and datafication https://t.co/AXELAqlYcq— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) February 17, 2024
Commodity Intelligence
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong--and How to Fix It
Two years in, a $1-billion-plus effort to simulate the human brain is in disarray. Was it poor management, or is something fundamentally wrong with Big Science?
Cognitive Bias Lab | Learn to Make Better Decisions
Explore cognitive biases with interactive tests, simulations, and real-world examples. Free platform to sharpen decision-making and critical thinking — no sign-up needed.
