This sounds like bad advice. In Moldbug’s application of it, for example, making things “obvious” corresponds to making bad arguments—arguments that, in some alternate reality, possibly made of straw, would correspond to some possibly straw person who found the argument very obvious. And then you say “well, obvious argument #1 is awful, so by process of elimination let’s go with obvious argument #2! Q.E.D.”
This sounds like bad advice. In Moldbug’s application of it, for example, making things “obvious” corresponds to making bad arguments—arguments that, in some alternate reality, possibly made of straw, would correspond to some possibly straw person who found the argument very obvious. And then you say “well, obvious argument #1 is awful, so by process of elimination let’s go with obvious argument #2! Q.E.D.”