{"id":7931,"date":"2015-07-18T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T22:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7931"},"modified":"2015-07-18T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T22:53:06","slug":"daniel-kahneman-what-would-i-eliminate-if-i-had-a-magic-wand-overconfidence-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/daniel-kahneman-what-would-i-eliminate-if-i-had-a-magic-wand-overconfidence-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Kahneman: \u2018What would I eliminate if I had a\u00a0magic wand? Overconfidence\u2019 | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/jul\/18\/daniel-kahneman-books-interview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/static\/sys-images\/Arts\/Arts_\/Pictures\/2015\/7\/14\/1436873850124\/Daniel-Kahneman-009.jpg?w=300&amp;q=85&amp;auto=format&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=d0b88d9b7565efbbc1fefc508d087ce2\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph: Richard Saker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m far on the left of the spectrum in Israeli politics and always have been,\u201d he says. \u201cI hated the notion of occupation since the very beginning. My first memories from after the 67 war are travelling with my children in the occupied territories. There were awnings over groceries stores with Hebrew lettering advertising Osem noodles. I couldn\u2019t bear it. I thought that was dreadful because I remembered German lettering in France. I have very strong feelings about Israel as an occupier.\u201dDespite this, Kahneman has found it impossible to envisage a settlement that will satisfy both sides. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in the power of rational argument in this context,\u201d he says, with an air of resignation. He mentions one occasion when he was visited at his university by a Palestinian academic after 67. They were getting on famously. But then \u201cwe tried to negotiate peace, and we failed, essentially on the right of return, which although obviously a legitimate demand among the Palestinians, means the destruction of Israel. So people who don\u2019t want Israel destroyed cannot accept the right of return, even though they might understand that it has legitimacy behind it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/jul\/18\/daniel-kahneman-books-interview\">Daniel Kahneman: \u2018What would I eliminate if I had a\u00a0magic wand? Overconfidence\u2019 | Books | The Guardian<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em>HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m far on the left of the spectrum in Israeli politics and always have been,\u201d he says. \u201cI hated the notion of occupation since the very beginning. My first memories from after the 67 war are travelling with my children in the occupied territories. There were awnings over groceries stores with Hebrew lettering advertising Osem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,1],"tags":[1022,1023],"class_list":["post-7931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-contributors","tag-danny-khaneman","tag-thinking-fast-and-slow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7935,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}