Risto_Saarelma comments on Stock phrases - Less Wrong

3 Post author: KnaveOfAllTrades 06 April 2014 07:32PM

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 14 April 2014 12:44:03PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: shminux 14 April 2014 07:11:49PM *  0 points [-]

They roughly correspond to subconscious and conscious, not sure why Kahneman felt he needed separate connotation-free names.