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Liberty

@LibertyRPF

Jan 19

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We contain multitudes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I believe we have twin necessary but opposed drives. Competition driven by fear, anger, ambition, challenge and achievement. Then cooperation driven by love and vulnerability. The key is to put the latter in ultimate charge ;)

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What's interesting is how dynamic that whole system is, and how much noise there is in it. f.ex. Someone's reaction to a situation, or decision faced with a problem, may depend on whether they've slept well, are hungry, had a fight with a spouse, just read a good book, etc

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What makes it much worse is that the Kahneman-esque striving for a world free of bias then discards the massive benefits of expert intuition. It's a characteristic of deep intuition taken from huge samples that true experts can't articulate their decisions afterwards.

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I think Kahneman himself wouldn't claim to want a world free from system 1 (or that it's even possible), but certain people who read his work certainly seem to think like that. As with everything, it's about mitigating the bad and accentuating the good.

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There is a VERY good discussion of Kahneman in McGilchrist's book. And it confirmed my own dumb intuition that system 1 and system 2 is subtly wrong.

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I gotta read that someday. But yeah, what *isn't* wrong when you zoom enough? There's not literally two systems in your brain, but it's a useful mental model to have vs not having it at all. Can be further refined for sure.. But in the end it's all quarks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯