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Comment by RonCdeWeijze on Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree · 2009-10-04T15:39:10.471Z · LW · GW

I see. Thank you for letting me know that. I must be wronger than any of you. And thank you for not making me have to be here, even though I feel our interests are the same. Take care!

Comment by RonCdeWeijze on Intuitive differences: when to agree to disagree · 2009-10-04T02:10:28.702Z · LW · GW

Models lead us through reality, as long as the intuitions giving rise to them, trust, expectations, suspicions, predictions, belief and intentions, are confirmed independently enough. Reality will fill the voids in our dreams, providing us a way out of inconvenient adaptations in full societal view. Unless, of course, our mistakes keep being expanded by circling within the safety of our circles of friends and nephews (nepotism). Then, one way or another, sooner or later, reality will adapt our collective intuitions hard handedly, e.g. by war. Therefore, PoV exchanges and letting time fill in the terra incognita so that we are all on the same page again, will not work as long as reality is too rich and mysterial for us, not accepting memetics creeping up on us. We should accept the fact that we all have our intuitive models and reality being, apart from experience in general, the other in particular, to independently confirm or deny those intuitions, indicating that our models are not perfect, we are not accountable and not fit to deal with reality then and there precisely. This can bring us to develop our model if not to rethink it, and not to worry about the status and power of our intuitive models and how we behave in society. There is no carefree zone as there should not be, for anyone in his right mind.