Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Nature of Self - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 April 2011 01:27:30PM *  4 points [-]

Since I am unable to figure out when not to trust my intuitions I can either trust all of them or none.

You trust the best tool you have, to the extent you believe (based on what the best tools you have tell you) it should be trusted. If trusting a judgment of perfect emptiness is better than trusting your intuitions, stop trusting your intuitions, but it's rarely like that. When you stop trusting your intuitions, you don't automatically get a better alternative. Unless you have such an alternative, by all means use the intuitions.

Relevant posts: The Simple Truth, ...What's a bias, again?, Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom.

(Also, it's not actually possible to stop trusting all of your intuitions. You can overrule only a small number of individual nudges, since even your conscious deliberation consists of smaller intuitions.)