The best I can say is that the distributions are indeed unintuitive to me (at first), but I’m now well trained enough that they feel intuitive. I imagine that both you and many other LessWrongers are the same. I’d give Jeff the final word on it, but I speculate given that he cross-posted this from a blog written for a much wider audience that the charge of “unintuitive” was not meant specifically to you, but to the general non-LW-ers who would be referred to this post.
It seems a bit weird to argue over whether something is intuitive or not. Intuitive is relative to the mind doing the intuition; it’s not something “out there” that something can either be or not be. Perhaps we should take a poll of LW users?
From the article:
Also, the expected audience is wider than just veteran LessWrong users.
You may then deduce that I disagree with this particular claim.
Indeed I would.
The best I can say is that the distributions are indeed unintuitive to me (at first), but I’m now well trained enough that they feel intuitive. I imagine that both you and many other LessWrongers are the same. I’d give Jeff the final word on it, but I speculate given that he cross-posted this from a blog written for a much wider audience that the charge of “unintuitive” was not meant specifically to you, but to the general non-LW-ers who would be referred to this post.
It seems a bit weird to argue over whether something is intuitive or not. Intuitive is relative to the mind doing the intuition; it’s not something “out there” that something can either be or not be. Perhaps we should take a poll of LW users?