Kahneman’s work does an unusually excellent job of coming to object-level recommendations. That seems to be what he is doing with his time now.
I don’t think using fast and slow would have hurt those ideas at all, what with it being the title of the book. Further, I’ve seen plenty of cases of trying to wrangle the dichotomy by piling on additional words like the elephant-or-rider conversation.
I also note we don’t talk about system 1 and system II much anymore. Looking at the Curated list for the last three months, I see plenty of posts that are aiming squarely at system 1 or system II, applying one system to the other, or describing one specific technique that could be called system I or II...but virtually none of the posts say anything about either of them or mention Kahneman. We’ve moved past the point where a binary distinction is useful to our discussions, and broad familiarity with the underlying concepts is assumed without the need for additional terms.
This suggests some combination of system I/II being easy to apply correctly, or the community being unusually good at applying it, or both.
It looks to me like how powerful a system is and how difficult it is to apply correctly are very different questions, and it feels like they are rarely balanced well. I think this is probably very difficult to do, and have seen people failing to apply systems correctly way more often than I have seen them succeed, which gives me a very low prior for unfamiliar systems’ utility.
Kahneman’s work does an unusually excellent job of coming to object-level recommendations. That seems to be what he is doing with his time now.
I don’t think using fast and slow would have hurt those ideas at all, what with it being the title of the book. Further, I’ve seen plenty of cases of trying to wrangle the dichotomy by piling on additional words like the elephant-or-rider conversation.
I also note we don’t talk about system 1 and system II much anymore. Looking at the Curated list for the last three months, I see plenty of posts that are aiming squarely at system 1 or system II, applying one system to the other, or describing one specific technique that could be called system I or II...but virtually none of the posts say anything about either of them or mention Kahneman. We’ve moved past the point where a binary distinction is useful to our discussions, and broad familiarity with the underlying concepts is assumed without the need for additional terms.
This suggests some combination of system I/II being easy to apply correctly, or the community being unusually good at applying it, or both.
It looks to me like how powerful a system is and how difficult it is to apply correctly are very different questions, and it feels like they are rarely balanced well. I think this is probably very difficult to do, and have seen people failing to apply systems correctly way more often than I have seen them succeed, which gives me a very low prior for unfamiliar systems’ utility.