loqi comments on Rationality Quotes: June 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: loqi 01 June 2011 06:54:15PM 15 points [-]

If you can't think intuitively, you may be able to verify specific factual claims, but you certainly can't think about history.

Well, maybe we can't think about history. Intuition is unreliable. Just because you want to think intelligently about something doesn't mean it's possible to do so.

Jewish Atheist, in reply to Mencius Moldbug

Comment author: CuSithBell 02 June 2011 07:51:48PM 4 points [-]

I would think this an irrationality quote? "Fuzzy" thinking skills are ridiculously important. "Intuition" may be somewhat unreliable, but in certain domains and under certain conditions, it can be - verifiably - a very powerful method.

Comment author: shokwave 06 June 2011 03:42:50PM 2 points [-]

I took as being rationality in the sense that it follows the form: "just because you want to action x does not mean that action x is possible", which is always a good reminder.

Comment author: CuSithBell 09 June 2011 03:02:43PM 2 points [-]

That's so, but it's also true that just because you're personally not good at X, that does not mean that X is impossible or worthless.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 06 June 2011 03:54:34PM 0 points [-]

Maybe it would be best to shorten it?

Comment author: fburnaby 23 June 2011 05:29:03PM *  0 points [-]

Yes. It depends whether we are in the context of discovery (or of "getting things done") or the context of justification.

Comment author: ChristianKl 19 June 2011 10:54:01PM 0 points [-]

You can't reasonable talk about darkness without talking about light. It's the same topic.

Comment author: CuSithBell 21 June 2011 03:31:46AM 1 point [-]

Do you mean to match up intuition and logic, or rationality quotes and irrationality quotes, or something else?

Comment author: loqi 10 June 2011 01:47:35AM 0 points [-]

Intuition is extremely powerful when correctly trained. Just because you want to have powerful intuitions about something doesn't mean it's possible to correctly train them.