Academia brings out the worst in people. It is a culture where the primary reward is ego, and this article is a testament to its noxious power.
Amos not crediting his student is unforgivable.
Um. Can you say "Self refuting flame?!"
No, because he's rebuking Tversky and not talking himself up at all.
Re:A Bitter Ending
by joericky233223 on Saturday February 04, 2017 @01:49PM
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The rockstar programmers I am aware of are the nicest people for collaboration (Guido van rossum, Jeff dean, John carmack. Propably computer scientists are the one you are thinking of.
"Amos wrote an article, addressed directly to economists, to repair technical flaws in prospect theory. "Advances in Prospect Theory," it was called, and though Amos did much of the work on it with his graduate student Rich Gonzalez, it ran as a journal article by Danny and Amos. "Amos said that it had always been Kahneman and Tversky, and that this had to be Kahneman and Tversky, and that it would be really strange to add a third person to it," said Gonzalez."
...would piss the crap out of me, if I were the student.
Edit: Reading more about them,my perception is that Amos was like the "rock star" programmer who can do great things, but who is impossible to work with.