OK, so you care about detailed accounts. Doesn’t that suggest that if you, y’know, knew more details about all those people being mugged, you would care more? So it’s just ignorance that leads you to discount their suffering?
Fictional accounts … well, people never have been great at distinguishing between imagination and reality, which, if you think about it, is actually really useful.
Really? My System 2 thinks System 2 is annoyingly incapable of seeing details, and System 1 is annoyingly incapable of seeing the big picture, and wants to use System 1 as a sort of zoom function to approximate something less broken.
Phew! I was getting worried there.
OK, so you care about detailed accounts. Doesn’t that suggest that if you, y’know, knew more details about all those people being mugged, you would care more? So it’s just ignorance that leads you to discount their suffering?
Fictional accounts … well, people never have been great at distinguishing between imagination and reality, which, if you think about it, is actually really useful.
No, I mean that more details will switch my System 1 into near mode. My System 2 thinks that’s a bug, not a feature.
Really? My System 2 thinks System 2 is annoyingly incapable of seeing details, and System 1 is annoyingly incapable of seeing the big picture, and wants to use System 1 as a sort of zoom function to approximate something less broken.
I guess I’m unusual in this regard?