School Sucks | Thinking, Fast and Slow (A Rationalist Review) @SchoolSucksPodcast | Uploaded December 2016 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Steve Patterson and Brett Veinotte discuss Daniel Kahneman's book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow." We discuss both the helpful insights and the problems in the book along the lines of philosophy, economics, current events and statistical analysis.
Steve is a rationalist philosopher and author working outside of academia. He returns to discuss the current state of anti-intellectualism and irrationality in politics. We then transition into a related discussion about Thinking, Fast and Slow. Steve argues that System One is actually the "best friend" of System Two.
Discussed:
-Philosophical problems: are people completely irrational?
-"The Hot Hand" - the zone is more than just luck
-Practice vs. luck: we can transfer slow and careful system two thinking into efficient system one functioning
-System one and the subconscious
-Statistics don't apply to YOU
-The "Academic Fallacy" in the 2008 financial crisis
-Steve: the laws of logic are the laws of existence
-Availability Bias/Availability Cascades in social and mainstream media
-Before people police language, maybe they should try to understand how people use it
-Theory-Induced Blindness
Steve's Website
steve-patterson.com
Steve's New Book: Square One: The Foundations of Knowledge
amzn.to/2hXab6x
Full Podcast: #465: SPEED AND POLITICS (Part Three – Don’t Disregard System One)
schoolsucksproject.com/podcast-465
Steve Patterson and Brett Veinotte discuss Daniel Kahneman's book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow." We discuss both the helpful insights and the problems in the book along the lines of philosophy, economics, current events and statistical analysis.
Steve is a rationalist philosopher and author working outside of academia. He returns to discuss the current state of anti-intellectualism and irrationality in politics. We then transition into a related discussion about Thinking, Fast and Slow. Steve argues that System One is actually the "best friend" of System Two.
Discussed:
-Philosophical problems: are people completely irrational?
-"The Hot Hand" - the zone is more than just luck
-Practice vs. luck: we can transfer slow and careful system two thinking into efficient system one functioning
-System one and the subconscious
-Statistics don't apply to YOU
-The "Academic Fallacy" in the 2008 financial crisis
-Steve: the laws of logic are the laws of existence
-Availability Bias/Availability Cascades in social and mainstream media
-Before people police language, maybe they should try to understand how people use it
-Theory-Induced Blindness
Steve's Website
steve-patterson.com
Steve's New Book: Square One: The Foundations of Knowledge
amzn.to/2hXab6x
Full Podcast: #465: SPEED AND POLITICS (Part Three – Don’t Disregard System One)
schoolsucksproject.com/podcast-465
