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by derefr
4353 days ago
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> but in everyday life, listen to your impulses, intuition and feelings The idea, if I understand it correctly, is that those are the things that are supposed to end up "less wrong." You're not supposed to be consciously thinking all the time about how your thinking is broken; you're supposed to practice a few tricks for a while, internalize them, and then your impulses/intuition/feelings will be (less) broken. |
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What I think is dangerous is adopting the underlying philosophy that your intuition is inherently wrong and in need of salvation from reason.
In this, as with every other area of human improvement, there's a balance to be struck between recognising your current state as "good enough" (even that has a derogatory ring to it) while not isolating you from the fact that there's almost always almost infinite room for improvement. And I think the cult of reason and LW in particular is bad at recognising and respecting a "good enough" state.
Or put another way, imagine if the most popular software engineering website was "YoureNotAsGoodAsJohnCarmack.com".