MattG comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, December 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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That model does exist but the four stage model isn't about what System I and System II are describing. It's worth to have new words for new concepts to not get the concepts confused with the old meaning.
But as soon as you try to get these words into popular perception their meaning will shift to the simplest meaning regardless.
There's nothing inherently complex about the meaning of the terms System I and System II. They are just as simply as other binary distinction. The difference is that they slice reality elsewhere. The concepts in common usage aren't in common usage because they are simple.
New terms can teach people to slice reality in new ways.