Is Kahneman's work overly pessimistic about human rationality?
While our findings highlight systematic biases, I don't see it as an indictment of human rationality per se, but rather a description of how the mind actually works. Understanding these cognitive tendencies is the first step toward mitigating their negative effects. The goal is not to eliminate intuition, which is often efficient, but to recognize when and how it might mislead us, and to engage our more deliberate System 2 thinking when higher accuracy is required. It's about informed judgment, not abandoning intuition.
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