Bummer. Daniel Kahneman died. He was the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. You can read an overview here. In a New York Times article about Kahneman, Steven Pinker said of Daniel’s work:
“…human reason left to its own devices is apt to engage in a number of fallacies and systematic errors, so if we want to make better decisions in our personal lives and as a society, we ought to be aware of these biases and seek workarounds. That’s a powerful and important discovery.” ( source )
Over the years, I’ve mentioned Kahneman’s work and it’s been a great way to understand how human brains work. I even mentioned him in one of my most recent presentations on Critical Thinking Made Simple.
Quotes
Some AI garnered quotes from Daniel Kahneman:
| Quote | Source | URL |
|---|---|---|
| “System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations.” | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | View source |
| “This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.” | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | View source |
| “Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.” | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | View source |
| “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | View source |
| “We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.” | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | View source |
| “Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.” | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | View source |
| “You are not the same person at all times. As your mood varies, something you are of course aware of, some features of your cognitive machinery vary with it, something you’re not fully aware of.” | Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein | View source |