Comment by dominotw
3 days ago
> One of Kahneman’s best known contributions to AIthought is the System 1 System 2 metaphor he brought tobear on human cognition in his book Thinking Fast andSlow.
I read this book published in 1974 called 'inner game of tennis' that has the same metaphor. Its one of the book i read every once in a while even though i dont play tennis anymore.
I'm struggling to get through TFaS, really don't understand how it became such a 'PopPsych' (if that's a thing) classic.
It's like a collection of the obvious, the wrong, and autobiography of someone you haven't otherwise heard of.
It'a probably obvious to you because of cultural osmosis.
Of that class of book, the game is to pretend to have read it. A little like quoting a play having read a book of quotes.
Kahneman book and work has been discredited, due to the bad statistical methods, and he himself acknowledged it.
I’d like to see some evidence of this. Not to mention—experiments that show a phenomenon is more complicated than originally thought is not evidence of shoddy work. It’s just science. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.
A good example is Kahneman and Tversky’s work on the conjunction fallacy. We now know that “stereotype threat” is not the only reason somebody might make a mistake of the kind they were studying. And over the decades, better experiments introduced better controls and more nuanced analysis. That said, people still make conjunction fallacies, but the effects are not as pronounced as originally believed. Is this bad science? Absolutely not! The finding is, in fact, pretty robust; we just know that there’s more at work.
So how do you count that? Is that a “failure to replicate”? Technically speaking, yes. But it is not bad science, and more importantly, it’s not a standard that we hold even “hard” scientists to. Nobody is saying that Newton has been discredited because of general relativity.
>> I’d like to see some evidence of this.
"Reconstruction of a Train Wreck: How Priming Research Went off the Rails" - https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...
You have Kahneman's own comment there, dated February 14, 2017.
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+1 on the inner game of tennis. It had a big influence on how I think about my own mind.
Kahneman credits it to someone else. His book just popularized it.