ChristianKl comments on Stock phrases - Less Wrong
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In the Berlin Community weekend I noticed one instance of bad phrasing. System I and System II are bad names for cognitive processes. The numbering is arbitrary and there a good chance that we could find a way to label the systems that more accessible.
It's not quite arbitrary. 1 < 2, and system 1 is more fundamental than system 2. Animals have a system 1 but no system 2.
Still, agree that the names are bad. You shouldn't need to think about the rule to tell them apart.
They roughly correspond to subconscious and conscious, not sure why Kahneman felt he needed separate connotation-free names.