which books written in the last ten years are going to be so widely read or understood that in fifty years no one will admit to remembering having thought any other way?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
hm maybe Thinking Fast and Slow? contingent on future developments, Superintelligence
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here's link to the Gigerenzer paper that articulates some of the critiques of "bias" as articulated by Thinking Fast and Slow crowd I believe
@nosilverv was referring to. I found it very convincing, especially paired w my reading of Seeing Like a State. https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/OpenAccessDownload/RBE-0092 …1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes -
Replying to @ResonantPyre @MechanicalMonk1 and
Here's the abstract if you don't want to read the whole paper, though just know I found it very convincing and undermined the importance of a good deal of the material in Thinking Fast and Slow. I guess I'm still curious how much the System 1 vs System 2 thinking holds uppic.twitter.com/fbajoCVHXK
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Replying to @ResonantPyre @MechanicalMonk1 and
since they don't criticize that here at all, necessarily. maybe the implicit critique is that System 1 thinking is more automatically logical and less different from System 2 than people might think, just very contextual (which makes many 'biases' they point out not so)
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Replying to @ResonantPyre @MechanicalMonk1 and
@kevin_dorst does research on this topic from a philosophical perspective (what does heuristics + biases, bayes, etc. really say about human reason IRL, when can we justify very strong "humans are irrational" conclusions?). Here is his manifesto: https://www.kevindorst.com/stranger_apologies/plea_for_political_empathy ….1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @11kilobytes @ResonantPyre and
Thanks for the shout out! I’m definitely sympathetic to similar themes as gigerenzer, though I would disagree on a lot of the details of how a defense of rationality should go. Haven’t seen this recent paper of his so will check it out!
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Replying to @kevin_dorst @11kilobytes and
quite compelling 'manifesto'. Look forward to hearing this project articulated more, I subscribed to newsletter. I wonder how much irrationalism is a new phenomena and/or a new articulation of an age old phenomena to assume the worst of ones opponents in the easiest way
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Replying to @ResonantPyre @kevin_dorst and
If I had to guess, I would say that in the unspecified past, it was more likely for people to directly leap to matters of good and evil, ill intention before trying to say that their political opposition was simply irrational, mistaken, etc. But I'm not confident without research
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It originated as a bit of a reaction inside economics against the rationalism (in a strictly defined sense) that's used as an assumption to simplify mathematical models of human behavior.
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ResonantPyre and
Ppl realized they could get published if they did some clever experiments clearly proving people often violate these convenient axioms This was mostly irritating because everyone knew the assumptions were wrong they just don't matter in practice, for the most part
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Replying to @eigenrobot @ResonantPyre and
very quickly this spread from "people sometimes prefer A to B, B to C, and (violating out somehow-defined rationality) C to A! Haha isnt that funny" to "people are just dumb af and thats why we need a daddy state"
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