I need to work things out carefully not to obey norms of communication (I have some posts on reasoning inside causal networks that I think literally only Ilya S. put in the effort to decode—weird flex, I know), but to protect me from myself.
But maybe I’m thinking of a different context than you, here. If I was writing about swing dancing or easy physics, I’d probably be a lot happier to trust my gut. But for new research, or in other cases where there’s optimization pressure working against human intuition, I think it’s better to check, and not much worth reading low-bandwidth text from someone who doesn’t check.
I need to work things out carefully not to obey norms of communication (I have some posts on reasoning inside causal networks that I think literally only Ilya S. put in the effort to decode—weird flex, I know), but to protect me from myself.
But maybe I’m thinking of a different context than you, here. If I was writing about swing dancing or easy physics, I’d probably be a lot happier to trust my gut. But for new research, or in other cases where there’s optimization pressure working against human intuition, I think it’s better to check, and not much worth reading low-bandwidth text from someone who doesn’t check.