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Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Is the Substituted Question Really True?

People answer a different question from the question they were asked. This, it turns out, is a very general mechanism. System one comes up with answers to questions that it shouldn't be able to answer. That you substitute an easy question for the hard one and it really happens a great deal. We are not geared to perceive the complexity of life.

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