tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808227584959676379.post7700584718987475846..comments2023-06-28T07:56:10.910-04:00Comments on In Progress: Thinking Slow about San BernardinoPeter H of Lebohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960259139631190172noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808227584959676379.post-79269988087184994792016-01-25T17:56:40.207-05:002016-01-25T17:56:40.207-05:00Here's an example of slow thinking: One Presi...Here's an example of slow thinking: <a title="One President’s Remarkable Response to Terrorism" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/01/joko-widodo-indonesia-terrorism/424242/" rel="nofollow">One President’s Remarkable Response to Terrorism</a>.Big Mykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09488250533536442903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808227584959676379.post-10960283161647845702016-01-18T17:39:50.020-05:002016-01-18T17:39:50.020-05:00I confess that I have not done my civic duty of li...I confess that I have not done my civic duty of listening to Season 2 of Serial. (Sarah Koenig for president!) Something else to look forward to. But I think that your "thinking small and large" is closer to Pinker's moral Flynn effect than it is too Hahneman's slow thinking, although no doubt closely related. <br /><br />The moral Flynn effect, fueled by the power of abtract thinking, is the brain's increasing recognition that, from the standpoint of the universe, no one holds any position any more privileged or more deserving than anyone else. So, as I say elsewhere, if we prefer life over death and happiness over suffering, we can't expect anyone to accommodate us unless we're willing to accommodate others' preference for these things.<br /><br />There was one other angle I was tempted to take, but decided not to. And that is this: how much of the warmongering is just a calculated campaign tactic and is nothing that any politician really believes. We have Hermann Göring's comment, made in an interview during the Nuremberg Trials: “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” I decided not to go that way because I feared our readers' invocation of Goodwin's Law or accusations of Reductio ad Hitlerum. Also, it had little to do with the Hahneman point.Big Mykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09488250533536442903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808227584959676379.post-25995071253912404072016-01-16T19:33:26.098-05:002016-01-16T19:33:26.098-05:00What an enjoyable read! I'm glad I fought my m...What an enjoyable read! I'm glad I fought my modern tendency to glorify my meted time to the extent of believing anything over 140 characters is a life shortening cancer. <br /><br />Those who are following the second series of "Serial" will recognize Myk's point that the U.S.'s overreaction to radical religious terrorism has hugely changed our image overseas. With all the drones flying overhead, a simple mistake or intended "collateral damage" destroys one's home and family. It's hard to imagine how we would feel if we were constantly in fear of that kind of "sword of Damocles". Ironically, for how intolerably bad Bowe Bergdahl was treated as a prisoner, his captives could always point to the fact that their treatment of prisoners was much more humane that treatment in the U.S. <br /><br />It's funny. You would think that the slow motion policy making of our government would lead to slow System 2 policy decisions. That doesn't seem to be the case. <i>Thinking Fast and Slow</i> may not be the best way to characterize this type of thinking. Perhaps a better characterization would be thinking locally and thinking globally or thinking small vs. thinking large.James Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04871338738388893364noreply@blogger.com