Re:Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
by wizzwizz4 on Saturday October 11, 2025 @08:39AM
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I'm reasonably sure this is not what happened, judging by my own recollection of when I have been tempted to write similar things, and my discussions with people who have written similar things. However, your story is both simple and coherent.
It's much easier to point out others' alleged irrational thinking, but the main purpose of books like this is to help you better understand your own thinking.
Re:Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland
by xpe on Saturday October 11, 2025 @08:54AM
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> It's much easier to point out others' alleged irrational thinking, but the main purpose of books like this is to help you better understand your own thinking.
That sounds right. I only can make probabilistic guesses as to what is happening in someone else's brain. By posing a question to someone else, there is some chance that person may ask it of themselves. If not today, then perhaps in future.
This is inaccurate. Here is what troll means to many people "a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post." My response clarified without being offensive.
To put in the terms of Kahnemann's Thinking Fast and Slow: it is worth considering if maybe the commenter above got triggered first (a System 1 emotional reaction) and then later sought to rationalize (System 2) a "reason" for that: namely "he's a pedantic troll".
> If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality. - Daniel Kahneman