shminux comments on Strong intutions. Weak arguments. What to do? - Less Wrong
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I thought that it has been generally agreed upon that, as a participant, the rational thing to do was to examine one's intuition and logic and make sure that your system 1 and system 2 thinking matches up, then reexamine it for possible biases. Hence it seems highly irrational to bring up something like
as a supporting argument.
Except in a lot of cases your intuition is better than your conscious thinking. See Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow.
My point was that you would be irrational to seriously expect your opponent to share your intuition, not that your intuition is wrong.
That's gotta be the best Cupertino I've seen in a while.
Thanks, fixed.