133. Patterns are fast, rules are slow
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Thinking Fast and Slow and Dual Process Theory
Kahneman's dual process theory is the word used for Kahneman's idea of system one and system two. When you do a pattern type thing, that recognition is one step only. That's partly why it works so fast. If you go through an algorithm, if you go through like, okay, now I carry the one, do this, blah, blah,blah,. that has lots of steps. The patterns are fast. And this is what you see, for example, in Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink. He opens his book by talking about how some art historians couldn't put their finger on something they thought was wrong with a statue. But when they went further
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