artificialpasta
Experienced
- Feb 2, 2020
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Report from WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/daniel-kahneman-assisted-suicide-9fb16124
He was 90. In his letter he wrote: "Not surprisingly, some of those who love me would have preferred for me to wait until it is obvious that my life is not worth extending. But I made my decision precisely because I wanted to avoid that state, so it had to appear premature. I am grateful to the few with whom I shared early, who all reluctantly came round to support me."
Shelly Kagan's lecture touches on exactly this kind of justification with an illustration of a "life curve".
He was an intellectual icon. My final high school paper was based on Kahneman's descriptions of System 1 / System 2 modes of thinking. Then in college one of my seniors in debate had me read Thinking Fast and Slow.
He was 90. In his letter he wrote: "Not surprisingly, some of those who love me would have preferred for me to wait until it is obvious that my life is not worth extending. But I made my decision precisely because I wanted to avoid that state, so it had to appear premature. I am grateful to the few with whom I shared early, who all reluctantly came round to support me."
Shelly Kagan's lecture touches on exactly this kind of justification with an illustration of a "life curve".
He was an intellectual icon. My final high school paper was based on Kahneman's descriptions of System 1 / System 2 modes of thinking. Then in college one of my seniors in debate had me read Thinking Fast and Slow.
