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)_/¯
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Kahneman calls S1 and S2 a 'useful fiction'. question is how useful! when i studied this the Profs argued that the main point is that our default way of making decisions is associative, more automatic and less conscious, but over and above that, no one has any idea how many...
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THANKS! OK I just read the conclusion. I am writing a piece on intuition for this weekend, think I'm more GK than DK. Intuition as a function of experience and the boundedness of the domain.
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yes me too. big fan of klein and his work seems to be used and validated by real world experts in high stakes situations and tight feedback loops
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think is also a fan, and suspect knows more of Klein's work than me, from what I've read on his forum
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Oh, HUGE fan. He’s already provided answers to two of my biggest questions (recognition primed decision making model explains what expert intuition is; cognitive transformation theory explains why some people can learn from experience and others cannot).
"suspect knows more of Klein's work than me"
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