I am somewhat hesitant to share simple intuition pumps about important topics, in case those intuition pumps are misleading.
This sounds wrong to me. Do you expect considering such things freely to be misleading on net? I expect some intuition pumps to be misleading, but for considering all of the intuitions that we can find about a situation to be better than avoiding them.
I feel like there are often big simplifications of complex ideas that just convey the wrong thing, and I was vaguely worried that in a field primarily dominated by things that are hard-to-read, things that are easy to understand will dominate the conversation even if they’re pretty misguided. It’s not a big worry for me here, but it was the biggest hesitation I had.
Not sure what Ben meant, but my own take is “sharing is fine, but intuition pumps without rigor backing them are not something we should curate regularly as an exemplar of what LW is trying to be”
This sounds wrong to me. Do you expect considering such things freely to be misleading on net? I expect some intuition pumps to be misleading, but for considering all of the intuitions that we can find about a situation to be better than avoiding them.
I feel like there are often big simplifications of complex ideas that just convey the wrong thing, and I was vaguely worried that in a field primarily dominated by things that are hard-to-read, things that are easy to understand will dominate the conversation even if they’re pretty misguided. It’s not a big worry for me here, but it was the biggest hesitation I had.
Not sure what Ben meant, but my own take is “sharing is fine, but intuition pumps without rigor backing them are not something we should curate regularly as an exemplar of what LW is trying to be”