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Comment author: steven0461 04 March 2012 10:07:01PM 7 points [-]

Does anyone here understand the exact relationship between near/far and system I/II? LessWrongers often seem to talk as if near is system I and far is system II, but Hanson says near is about logic and far is about intuition.

Comment author: Grognor 05 March 2012 10:57:26AM 1 point [-]

LessWrongers often seem to talk as if near is system I and far is system II

What? I've never seen this. Anyway it's wrong.

Comment author: steven0461 07 March 2012 09:47:53PM *  2 points [-]

As one example, do you think that doing utilitarian calculations is near or far? Do you think that LessWrong thinks that doing utilitarian calculations is near or far?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 07 March 2012 11:20:57PM 1 point [-]

Hm, it would seem to be neither; it's like, 'we can't actually think about these (far) things in near mode, so we'll use a mathematical approximation of near mode and see what that tells us'.

Comment author: Grognor 05 April 2012 08:35:53AM 0 points [-]

When you actually asked this, I came up with an answer similar to the below:

That seems to be a very Near sort of act, since it requires detail and concrete thought. I suspect Less Wrong has not thought about the question at all and would give an answer either similar to mine or not feasibly distinguishable from noise.

I kept thinking this answer was terrible, so I didn't post it. Today I did for some reason.

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