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Your response to this article about how contingent advice is usually better than universal advice is to propose a universal theory?
by iainmerrick 5y ago
Your response to this article about how contingent advice is usually better than universal advice is to propose a universal theory?
- spyckie2 5y agoI did notice the irony myself :) The article talks about contingent advice being better than universal advice only in stage 3. If you're not then universal advice is helpful. I think that holds true for most people and most subjects, including myself. Originally, I thought the article did a great job describing a common scenario that occurs usually in decision making and I wanted to describe my intuition on why I think it comes about. It's not really a universal theory, more my own digestion / explanation on the interrelation around hedgehogs vs foxes and my own interpretation of the issues that the articles describes.
- iainmerrick 5y agoThat makes sense! I just realised my reply may have come across as mean-spirited rather than the light joke I intended. Sorry about that.
- spyckie2 5y agono worries! It is rather ironic.
- bendbro 5y agoI'm sure there are contingencies that can make contingent advice worse than universal advice.
- mtrower 5y agoSure —- in situations where time is critical, for example, fast, suboptimal decisions can be more effective than slow, optimized decisions. So having something general drilled into your head can, in those cases, be preferable.
- httpsterio 5y agoNo, they just taught you, a person with a level 1 understanding of domain expertise, about how domain expertise works ;)
- agarden 5y agoA universal theory is not the same thing as universal advice. What would one universally do just because one knows the universal theory? ...Now that you bring it up, the OP is offering a piece of universal advice. The irony seems stronger there. Not sure if that invalidates his advice or not. Probably just invalidates taking it as a hard and fast rule.