Fast process, slow progress

Slow progress--but progress nonetheless.

Stroke thrombolysis: slow progress.

During the past decade, few topics have prompted as much controversy as stroke thrombolysis. Although there is general agreement that thrombolysis of stroke patients is effective, the major issue is case selection: Who should give what drug at what dose? Where, how, and to which patients? Like many potent treatments, there is great potential for effectiveness but also important risk of harm. In...

Predications, Fast and Slow

Notions of predication based on extensional and intensional subsumption, as described by Woods, are related to Kahneman’s systems of thinking fast and slow. Path-based reasoning with links is applied to predication over not only individuals but (following Carlson) kinds and stages/time. Predications, fast and slow, are formulated in monadic secondorder logic over strings, analyzed in Goguen and...

Cooperation, Fast and Slow

Does cooperating require the inhibition of selfish urges? Or does “rational” self-interest constrain cooperative impulses? I investigated the role of intuition and deliberation in cooperation by meta-analyzing 67 studies in which cognitiveprocessing manipulations were applied to economic cooperation games (total N = 17,647; no indication of publication bias using Egger’s test, Begg’s test, or p...

Approachability, fast and slow

Approachability has become a central tool in the analysis of repeated games and online learning. A player plays a repeated vector-valued game against Nature and her objective is to have her long-term average reward inside some target set. The celebrated results of Blackwell provide a 1/ √ n convergence rate of the expected point-to-set distance if this is achievable, i.e., if the set is approac...