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		sandinmyjoints 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-sou... That’s an interesting adage. Any ideas of its source?

Dilettante_ 5 months ago [–]

It might have been in Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow"

Terr_ 5 months ago | [–]

I'm not sure, but something involving Kahneman et al. seems very plausible: The relevant term is probably "Attribute Substitution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution

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