From the Bookshelf of LessWrong…

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Oct 04, 2017 David rated it really liked it

Shelves: psych-mind, politics-econ, 1st12m

I recommend this to anyone concerned with critical thinking and learning to analyze and debunk the errors rampant in belief and decision making - in all venues of life. Some flaws, but they're dwarfed by its great concepts. Main flaw: Kahneman points out how System 1 & 2 reinforce and develop one another, but still straw-mans reason a bit, mostly portraying it as a calculating capacity everyone has, without developing the idea that reasoning capacity evolves endlessly higher as the feedback loop ...more

3 likes · Like · see review

Jul 28, 2019 Alex Davidson rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: want-to-read-productivity

I feel that I could have saved my time and have just read a list of cognitive biases. While lots of facts were interesting such as judges being more harsh with their sentencing just before lunch, Daniel Kahneman gets too bogged down in the details of his experiments, there’s a fair amount of rebelling and reexplaining of points already gone over. Don’t get me wrong, he won the Nobel prize in economics for the work he mentions in this book and it is important.

The various ways system 1 (thinking f ...more

Like · see review