In this comment, you explicitly understood and agreed with the material that was teaching explicit knowledge (philosophy), but objected to the material designed to teach intuitions (circling).
Surely you can see how this does not at all imply that I object to intuition, yes? Logically, after all, there are at least three other possibilities:
That I don’t believe that intuitions can be taught; or…
That I don’t believe that this particular approach (circling) is good for teaching intuitions; or…
That I object to circling for reasons unrelated to the (purported) fact that it teaches intuitions.
(There are other, subtler, possibilities; but these three are the obvious ones.)
The conclusion that I have something against intuitions, drawn from the observation that I am skeptical of circling in particular (or any similar thing), seems to me to be really quite unwarranted.
Yes. If you’re wondering, I basically updated more towards #1.
I wouldn’t call the conclusion unwarranted by the way, it’s a perfectly valid interpretation of seeing this sort of stance from you, it was simply uninformed.
I can’t, but here’s an example from this same thread:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/96N8BT9tJvybLbn5z/we-run-the-center-for-applied-rationality-ama#HgQCE8aHctKjYEWHP
In this comment, you explicitly understood and agreed with the material that was teaching explicit knowledge (philosophy), but objected to the material designed to teach intuitions (circling).
Surely you can see how this does not at all imply that I object to intuition, yes? Logically, after all, there are at least three other possibilities:
That I don’t believe that intuitions can be taught; or…
That I don’t believe that this particular approach (circling) is good for teaching intuitions; or…
That I object to circling for reasons unrelated to the (purported) fact that it teaches intuitions.
(There are other, subtler, possibilities; but these three are the obvious ones.)
The conclusion that I have something against intuitions, drawn from the observation that I am skeptical of circling in particular (or any similar thing), seems to me to be really quite unwarranted.
Yes. If you’re wondering, I basically updated more towards #1.
I wouldn’t call the conclusion unwarranted by the way, it’s a perfectly valid interpretation of seeing this sort of stance from you, it was simply uninformed.