Wisdom decoder & cultural voyager🧭 | @uwaterloo Prof | @OnWisdomPodcast co-host | Forecasting Collaborative founder | 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦
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3/ Aviation doesn’t rely on wise pilots alone. It has no-blame incident reporting, checklists, and crew resource management.
Pilots rarely learn from crashing. Yet, the system learns from near-misses on their behalf.
4/ Episode w/ Dilip Jeste, @BarrySch & @brienza_p: from the neuroscience of wisdom → what kills judgment at work → can AI labs keep their missions?
📝 igorgrossmann.substack.com/p…
🎧 onwisdompodcast.com/73
2/ Government nudge units: 1.4-point effects across 23M people (vs 8.7 in journals).
Cheap, sure! But in one study, merely hearing about a green nudge lowered support for a carbon tax. Small fixes can crowd out big ones.
1/ I asked leading behavioral scientists how to make communities wiser.
They kept telling me how to fix individuals.
New essay on “trickle-up wisdom,” plus the finale of our On Wisdom series 🧵
Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social retweeted
Episode 4 of On Wisdom's special series is now available! This week: Interventions and Training with Judith Glück, @ethan_kross, and Kristján Kristjánsson.
Can we actually learn to be wiser? What it takes to develop better judgment?
🎧 Listen here: onwisdompodcast.com/72
Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social retweeted
And why getting older or going through difficult experiences doesn't necessarily make us wiser.
Hosted by @psywisdom and @EBasedwisdom
I’ve studied wisdom for 20 years. I still lose arguments, maximize over impossible choices, & get hijacked by my own emotions. Why is wisdom so easy when it’s someone else’s problem, and so hard when it’s our own? New essay + On Wisdom Ep. 72 out now. 🧵👇 igorgrossmann.substack.com/p…
Finally, Kristján Kristjánsson bridges psychology and Aristotelian phronesis (practical wisdom): how children graduate from moral habits around age 8–10 when virtues clash (e.g., honesty vs. compassion), and why institutions need collective phronesis in teams.
Listen to the full conversation with Charles Cassidy, Judith Glück, Ethan Kross, and Kristján Kristjánsson: 🎧 Podcast: onwisdompodcast.com/72📖 Essay & full transcript: igorgrossmann.substack.com/p…
Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social retweeted
Igor (@psywisdom) and Charles (@EBasedwisdom) confront a fundamental question about what a wisdom score is actually telling us, and discover that the answer may be less about choosing between traits and states than understanding how they fit together.
Special Series: 5 Episodes on the Science of Wisdom youtu.be/0L8IMh976C0?si=Nm5M… via @YouTube
71: Special Series Episode 3: Measuring Wisdom igorgrossmann.substack.com/p…
Wise until the argument starts igorgrossmann.substack.com/p…
Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social retweeted
Episode 2 of On Wisdom's five-part special series is now available!
This week features a discussion on Metacognition and Judgment hosted by @psywisdom and @EBasedwisdom with guests @GordPennycook, Steve Fleming, and @tomstello_.
🎧Listen here: onwisdompodcast.com/70
You’ve been thinking about it (or at least your chatbot has). But are you getting anywhere? igorgrossmann.substack.com/p…