adamisom comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: adamisom 04 November 2012 03:29:05AM 0 points [-]

In other words, you're meta-cogitation is 1 - do I trust my very certain intuition? or 2 - do I trust the heuristic from formal/mathematical thinking (that I see as useful partially and specifically to compensate for inaccuracies in our intuition)?