The Limits of Human Rationality
www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/is-self-knowledge-overrated
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Jonah Lehrer, writing for The New Yorker on Daniel Kahnemans new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow:
Its impossible to overstate the influence of Kahneman and Tversky. Like Darwin, they helped to dismantle a longstanding myth of human exceptionalism. Although wed always seen ourselves as rational creatures this was our Promethean gift it turns out that human reason is rather feeble, easily overwhelmed by ancient instincts and lazy biases. The mind is a deeply flawed machine.
Depressing, in a way, but it explains so much of our collective behavior. (Via Kontra.)