Eugine_Nier comments on Should we discount extraordinary implications? - Less Wrong
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You should evaluate any argument I make on its merits, not on the basis of the intuitions I used to produce it.
Regardless of my evaluation of your argument, given what you've told me so far, I cannot apply it to real-world situations without knowing your intuitions.
Or, at the very least, if I do apply it, there's no reason to expect that you will endorse the result, or that the result will be at all related to what you will do in that situation, since what you will in fact do (if I've understood your account correctly) is consult your intuitions in that situation and act accordingly, regardless of the conclusions of your argument.
Not true! The intuitions used constitute evidence! Evaluating only arguments provided and not the sampling used to provide them will (sometimes) lead you to wrong conclusions.