Indeed, intuitions are fallible. Though beware of the other extreme: writing off your intuitions altogether and trying to live solely based on logic. I’ve seen various people in the LW sphere try this, and it doesn’t quite work. In some cases, like nutrition or social life, there is a bottomless pit of complexity. Trying to provably ‘solve’ such problems will lead to a bottomless pit of thinking, stagnation, and depression.
Indeed, intuitions are fallible. Though beware of the other extreme: writing off your intuitions altogether and trying to live solely based on logic. I’ve seen various people in the LW sphere try this, and it doesn’t quite work. In some cases, like nutrition or social life, there is a bottomless pit of complexity. Trying to provably ‘solve’ such problems will lead to a bottomless pit of thinking, stagnation, and depression.
Logic is not a magic hammer either.