JGWeissman comments on Strong intutions. Weak arguments. What to do? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 10 May 2012 08:17:09PM 8 points [-]

Some people, at least, have better intuition than their rational thinking is.

I think that by "rational thinking" you mean "deliberative attempt at rational thinking". I consider it a good human level rationalist strategy to train your intuition and learn when and what extent you can rely on it.

Comment author: Karmakaiser 10 May 2012 09:36:14PM *  5 points [-]

Perhaps a better way to say it is that some people are better at intuition than at reflection or computation.