"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> Incidentally - this occurred to me afterwards - this is not me saying,
> "I'm a better explainer than you, nyah nyah." This is me saying "I get
> strongly annoyed when people say that things like this are hard to
> explain." It symbolizes a psychological disconnect. Our instinctive
> reactions, our automatic intuitions, carry all the necessary information.
> Trust your intuitions enough to verbalize them.
Well said. I would add that it can be good to verbalize them not just
to others, but also to oneself. That way, one can know why one's
instincts lean a certain way, and know better when to trust them - and
when not to.
It's kind of like an AI, having come online and interacting with the
world, but created in a way such that the AI's programmers have no hope
of understanding the AI's code without help, trying to self-diagnose so
as to find out how the AI works, and maybe how to translate human minds
into AIs so they no longer have to worry about wetware faults.
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