Okay, thank you for engaging. Those answers weren’t clear to me from the parent piece.
Maybe I reacted strongly because my current prior on my own intuitions is something like “Your intuition is just savannah-monkey-brain cognitive shortcuts and biases layered over your weird life experiences”. One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is how often that prior is actually justified versus how often it’s merely a useful heuristic (or a shortcut/bias? ha!) to remind me to shut up and Google/multiply.
Speaking generally, not assuming that you are doing this, but I think that there is a bit of a taboo against hedgehog-thinking. Perhaps there is a tendency for people to overuse that type of thinking, so perhaps it can make sense to be weary of it.
But it is clear that some situations call for us to be more like foxes, and other situations to be more like hedgehogs. I don’t think anyone would take the position that hedgehogs are to be completely dismissed in 100% of situations. So then, it would be helpful to have the right terminology at your disposal for when you do find yourself in a hedgehog situation.
Okay, thank you for engaging. Those answers weren’t clear to me from the parent piece.
Maybe I reacted strongly because my current prior on my own intuitions is something like “Your intuition is just savannah-monkey-brain cognitive shortcuts and biases layered over your weird life experiences”. One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is how often that prior is actually justified versus how often it’s merely a useful heuristic (or a shortcut/bias? ha!) to remind me to shut up and Google/multiply.
Sure thing :)
Speaking generally, not assuming that you are doing this, but I think that there is a bit of a taboo against hedgehog-thinking. Perhaps there is a tendency for people to overuse that type of thinking, so perhaps it can make sense to be weary of it.
But it is clear that some situations call for us to be more like foxes, and other situations to be more like hedgehogs. I don’t think anyone would take the position that hedgehogs are to be completely dismissed in 100% of situations. So then, it would be helpful to have the right terminology at your disposal for when you do find yourself in a hedgehog situation.