I’m not sure you actually disagree with the OP. I think you are probably right about the mechanism by which people identify and react to social situations.
I think the main claims of the OP hold whether you’re making hyper-fast calculations, or lookup checks. The lookup checks still correspond roughly to what the hyperfast calculations would be, and I read the OP mainly as a cautionary tale for people who attempt to do use System 2 reasoning to analyze social situations (and, especially, if you’re attempting to change social norms)
Aspiring rationalists are often the sort of people who look for inefficiencies in social norms and try to change them. But this often results in missing important pieces of all the nuances that System 1 was handling.
I’m not sure you actually disagree with the OP. I think you are probably right about the mechanism by which people identify and react to social situations.
I think the main claims of the OP hold whether you’re making hyper-fast calculations, or lookup checks. The lookup checks still correspond roughly to what the hyperfast calculations would be, and I read the OP mainly as a cautionary tale for people who attempt to do use System 2 reasoning to analyze social situations (and, especially, if you’re attempting to change social norms)
Aspiring rationalists are often the sort of people who look for inefficiencies in social norms and try to change them. But this often results in missing important pieces of all the nuances that System 1 was handling.