Does this capture any of what you’re talking about? This is my intuitive take away from the post so I want to check if it’s not what is intended.
An analogy: we know that the lens has flaws and we can learn specific moves to shift the lens a bit so that we can see the flaws more easily. For those with high levels of epistemic rationality, bumping the lens around in just the right ways is, or has become, an automatic process such that they seem to have a magic ability to always catch the flaws right away. We ask them for an algorithm to do that and they point to a mishmash of different ways of nudging the lens. Both sides feel mildly silly. “So I move the it 2cm to the left followed by a 2 degree rotation clockwise?”, “Uh, just nudge it around a bit dude, you should see what I mean after trying for a while.”
Yes :-). I wouldn’t say that it perfectly encapsulates what I was trying to say, but I myself don’t yet know how to give a perfect encapsulation either. Some of the comments that other commenters have made are very much on point as well.
Does this capture any of what you’re talking about? This is my intuitive take away from the post so I want to check if it’s not what is intended. An analogy: we know that the lens has flaws and we can learn specific moves to shift the lens a bit so that we can see the flaws more easily. For those with high levels of epistemic rationality, bumping the lens around in just the right ways is, or has become, an automatic process such that they seem to have a magic ability to always catch the flaws right away. We ask them for an algorithm to do that and they point to a mishmash of different ways of nudging the lens. Both sides feel mildly silly. “So I move the it 2cm to the left followed by a 2 degree rotation clockwise?”, “Uh, just nudge it around a bit dude, you should see what I mean after trying for a while.”
Yes :-). I wouldn’t say that it perfectly encapsulates what I was trying to say, but I myself don’t yet know how to give a perfect encapsulation either. Some of the comments that other commenters have made are very much on point as well.