# The only path out, as far as I can see, is to use system 2 thinking to
perform analysis on…

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The only path out, as far as I can see, is to use system 2 thinking to perform
analysis on automatic (machine-assisted) more-or-less-objective summaries of
our system-1-driven behaviors, then use external mechanisms to nudge system 1
toward better decisions. (We see a little bit of this on the macro level with
behavioral economics and on the micro level with ‘quantified self’-driven
habit regimens. I think we could do this in a much more granular way if we
took heavy advantage of environmental priming & distance reading.)

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [November 10,
2017](https://medium.com/p/a456e60fb6fa).

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