alt Hacker NewsI have never heard of ”System 1” and ”System 2” thinking before.
Wikipedia implies it’s just some pop-sci (psychology even, so extra pop) book from a few years ago. A book heavily criticized for relying on shoddy science. Why are the terms used to describe anything by anyone trying to sound serious or scientific?
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cpgxiii • today at 4:52 PM
Because a truly massive portion of managers/leaders in AI-adjacent work are heavily buzzword-driven. "System 1/system 2","agentic <buzzword>", etc; someone in the industry starts using it and then everyone else picks it up, regardless of how much (or little) they understand.
Betelbuddy • today at 4:54 PM
Its all Kahneman...whose book and work has been discredited, due to the bad statistical methods, and he himself acknowledged it.
> In 2002, Kahneman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, despite being a research psychologist, for his work in prospect theory. Kahneman stated he has never taken a single economics course – that everything that he knows of the subject he and Tversky learned from their collaborators Richard Thaler and Jack Knetsch.