Re:Re-reading Kahneman's “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
by internaut on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @07:36AM
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> In the end, I decided that his research into cognitive bias was more a journey of self exploration, but somehow he discovered these biases in everyone except himself.
Maybe fixing humans is impossible and it would be better for meta-meta-cognition to be accomplished by other people. Clearly they are quite good at it already!
Suppose you had a complete record of a person's speech and writing i.e. some of their outputs.
Could a software be devised which gave the equivalent of a 3rd party observation on your choices? Could you even identify choices from the data?
Maybe fixing humans is impossible and it would be better for meta-meta-cognition to be accomplished by other people. Clearly they are quite good at it already!
Suppose you had a complete record of a person's speech and writing i.e. some of their outputs.
Could a software be devised which gave the equivalent of a 3rd party observation on your choices? Could you even identify choices from the data?