Yeah, I think that roughly lines up with my example of “generator of large effects”. The reason I’d rather say “generator of large effects” rather than “trying” is that “large effects” sounds slightly more like something that ought to have a sort of conservation law, compared to “trying”. But both our examples are incomplete in that the supposed conservation law (which provides the inquisitive force of “where exactly does your proposal deal with X, which it must deal with somewhere by conservation”) isn’t made clear.
I think one example (somewhat overlapping one of yours) is my discussion of the so-called “follow-the-trying game” here.
Yeah, I think that roughly lines up with my example of “generator of large effects”. The reason I’d rather say “generator of large effects” rather than “trying” is that “large effects” sounds slightly more like something that ought to have a sort of conservation law, compared to “trying”. But both our examples are incomplete in that the supposed conservation law (which provides the inquisitive force of “where exactly does your proposal deal with X, which it must deal with somewhere by conservation”) isn’t made clear.