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Optimizing assumes that you know you are moving into the right direction.
Eliezer recently wrote on FB in the LW Group:
As far as I understand CFAR also doesn't advocate doing things that feel very wrong on an intuitive level. To the extend that you believe that shutting up and calculate is useful, you haven't provided an argument for why you believe it's an optimization.
I'm confused by your presumption that I suggested doing things that feel very wrong on an intuitive level. Can you please highlight to me where I stated that? Thanks!
I don't think you suggested that thing it felt wrong but I think "shut up" suggests letting the data speak for itself and ignoring how it feels like.
I was using the metaphor Eliezer used here, so I think it might be a semantics issue. The point of using math was to deal with attention bias, as I highlighted above. After that, it's important to evaluate feelings, for sure.