ChristianKl comments on Agency and Life Domains - LessWrong

5 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 16 November 2014 01:38AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 18 November 2014 02:36:54PM 0 points [-]

What do you mean when you say "evaluate intuition" in practical terms?

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 18 November 2014 10:27:59PM 0 points [-]

The way I tend to do it is to sit down once a week, and evaluate my current cached habits, thoughts, beliefs, roles, etc - the whole complex of factors that makes up what I perceive as "intuition" for me. I see if they are serving me well, or not. If I find they are not serving me well, I strive to change them.

Comment author: ChristianKl 19 November 2014 05:42:29PM 0 points [-]

Thoughts and beliefs are system II stuff. If you do X because you believe Y, that's system II.

Intuition is often when you do things and have no reason for reasons that can't be expressed in language as such it's a lot harder to investigate. The kind of intuition that lets a fireman feel fear when he can't see any logical reason and then quit the building to safe his life, can't be broken down analytically.

I don't see a good reason to speak in terms of system I and system II when speaking about sitting down to retrospect.