I would guess that somebody “who always did the work” and does not have this “bad habit” would spout a lot of numbers that would not really hold out. It might be good to strive for accuracy but false accuracy can be pretty bad.
Then there might be cases where not using epsilon would be a simplification or cop-out. If you have beliefs like “AGI will hit between 10 to 20 years form now” and try to square this with more specific claims like “AGI will hit in 10 years 4 months and 3 days”, “AGI will hit in 10 years 4 months, 3 days, 2 hours and 3 minutes” you ideally will want the more exact claims to sum to the more general claim. And then there is an issue whether you have credenced for truly pointlike timeintervals instead of a span. But if there is no span suggested by context (ie AGI will hit in 10 years has a “natural adjacent” in “hits in 11 years” while “10 years 4 months 3 days” has an adjacent of “10 years 4 months 4 days”) what span should one apply?
If you have a map it is better to draw a dragon there rather than guess at a coastline or think that part is unmappable (by for example cropping the area out of the map).
I would guess that somebody “who always did the work” and does not have this “bad habit” would spout a lot of numbers that would not really hold out. It might be good to strive for accuracy but false accuracy can be pretty bad.
Then there might be cases where not using epsilon would be a simplification or cop-out. If you have beliefs like “AGI will hit between 10 to 20 years form now” and try to square this with more specific claims like “AGI will hit in 10 years 4 months and 3 days”, “AGI will hit in 10 years 4 months, 3 days, 2 hours and 3 minutes” you ideally will want the more exact claims to sum to the more general claim. And then there is an issue whether you have credenced for truly pointlike timeintervals instead of a span. But if there is no span suggested by context (ie AGI will hit in 10 years has a “natural adjacent” in “hits in 11 years” while “10 years 4 months 3 days” has an adjacent of “10 years 4 months 4 days”) what span should one apply?
If you have a map it is better to draw a dragon there rather than guess at a coastline or think that part is unmappable (by for example cropping the area out of the map).