'The Mythical Number Two' - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323998611_The_Mythical_Number_Two … - via @xuenay
Wish I'd found this paper before writing my bat and ball post! Splits out distinctions that have been lumped under 'System 1'/'System 2' (or more recently 'Type 1'/'Type 2')
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Nitpick: AFAIK, _Thinking_ didn't have that big of an impact on the LW crowd, because EY's writing had largely popularized much of the same research that "Thinking" did.
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I was actually wondering about the history, as I wasn't around for LW 1.0. I thought the cognitive bias stuff was quite central to the LW project, after all it's called Less Wrong...
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It will be interesting to see how/whether they assimilate the cogsci mainstream abandoning the story.
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Tempted to say the question "why did the cogsci mainstream play along with this story, when it was a priori incoherent" is bigger, but maybe it isn't. Cogsci has been intellectually bankrupt for 30 years, no one takes it seriously, and it has all the standard academic pathologies
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