The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

by Michael Lewis

“We study natural stupidity instead of artificial intelligence.”

Amos

Experiences that led to regret and frustration were not always easy to undo. Frustrated people needed to undo some feature of their environment, while regretful people needed to undo their own actions.

One rule was that the more items there were to undo in order to create some alternative reality, the less likely the mind was to undo them.

With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the less likely the mind is to even try.

“Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point.”

Amos

“Any error that attracts a sufficient number of votes is not an error at all.”

Danny

The mind was more like a coping mechanism than it was a perfectly designed tool.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

Amos

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

Amos

‘Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good book. It was a very good book.’”

Amos