Episode 4 − Intuition and Rationality: Conversation with Daniel Kahneman (Part 1)

[@fahimahmed9567]

guys you might want to add subtitles here.........its difficult to understand what kahneman is saying. thanks.

[@JoseAhonen]

So, where's the part 2? Why no link provided here?

[@zadeh79]

Conman seems to think intution is non-generative. How so? When he says 2 + 2, the entire sequence is generated subconsiously.

[@SuperKoopaguy]

Wow... Intuition is an illogical and unreliable way of making judgements? No shit, Sherlock. Tell me something I don't know. I mean really... A whole field of science conducting research since the 1970's has concluded that "intuitive thinging is unreliable." What a waste of time and money.

[@WayneLewisRSP]

xkcd.com/386/

[@alfiecollins5617]

Sure. But his (and Amos Tversky's) work gets right into the details of just where intuition goes wrong. It is therefore very useful - and not mere mental masturbation. For example, knowing about the 'anchoring effect' is important and affects each and every negotiation.

[@alfiecollins5617]

@Jeremy Battle You're right. Intuition is obviously not useless or we simply wouldn't have evolved it (not taking into account the possibility of it being a spandrel, but it seem unlikely that something so complex could be a mere evolutionary biproduct of another evolved trait). Intuition, which, roughly speaking, is equivalent to Daniel Kahneman's system 1, is almost useless when dealing with certain areas - like statistics - but almost mysteriously good at dealing with other areas, such as judging character, or judging when something feels off. Indeed, a master in any given domain seems almost superhuman to a layman, having such a depth of intuition that they can at times seem omniscient - an obvious example would be a chess grandmaster.