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This entire post is "I am le smart, so smart that other people think I'm wrong" I think it would come across better if the author mixed times where their non-t

This entire post is "I am le smart, so smart that other people think I'm wrong" I think it would come across better if the author mixed times where their non-traditional intuition gave them the wrong answer.

eyelidlessness 4y ago
I don’t think that’s a remotely fair characterization of the author’s self-evaluation. A fair bit of the article is spent expressing embarrassment, presuming they were in fact wrong, and surprise at discovering that presumption was their error. What you’re describing would be an entirely different post, likely making a very different point. There’s value in exploring “sometimes your idiosyncratic intuitions turn out to be right”, without muddying that with the obvious intuition that this won’t always be the case. There’s value in exploring the idea through demonstrative anecdote without counter examples. If anything, counter examples might influence the kind of pattern matching biases which lead to such faulty intuitions. Anyway, I think the author has demonstrated that they’re fallible and happy to be corrected. They’ve acknowledged more concrete problems with the post and made changes to address them at least a couple times.
- mlajtos 4y ago
  > fallible and happy to be corrected Thank you, that is a very accurate description of how I operate. If you don't mind, I'll steal this phrase from you. :)
  - eyelidlessness 4y ago
    Just saw this now but I absolutely don’t mind.
    - mlajtos 4y ago
      Thank you :)
hgsgm 4y ago
Especially because the post has several mistakes that commenters here corrected. Including a case where he failed to understand the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and proposed an infinitely more inefficient solution: > We were just presented with integral calculus and there it was – you can get an average of some function with definitive integral. That is literaly measuring car's speed at every instant!
mlajtos 4y ago
> I think it would come across better if the author mixed times where their non-traditional intuition gave them the wrong answer. Oh, there are a lot of instances where I was biased and my actions were dead wrong. (example story: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/i-told-my-crush-her-leaked-password https://mlajtos.mu/posts/i-told-my-crush-her-leaked-password ) This post was about rare moments when I was right. I'll try to write about my failures more often, as the source material is basically endless.

eyelidlessness 4y ago

I don’t think that’s a remotely fair characterization of the author’s self-evaluation. A fair bit of the article is spent expressing embarrassment, presuming they were in fact wrong, and surprise at discovering that presumption was their error. What you’re describing would be an entirely different post, likely making a very different point. There’s value in exploring “sometimes your idiosyncratic intuitions turn out to be right”, without muddying that with the obvious intuition that this won’t always be the case. There’s value in exploring the idea through demonstrative anecdote without counter examples. If anything, counter examples might influence the kind of pattern matching biases which lead to such faulty intuitions. Anyway, I think the author has demonstrated that they’re fallible and happy to be corrected. They’ve acknowledged more concrete problems with the post and made changes to address them at least a couple times.

mlajtos 4y ago
> fallible and happy to be corrected Thank you, that is a very accurate description of how I operate. If you don't mind, I'll steal this phrase from you. :)
- eyelidlessness 4y ago
  Just saw this now but I absolutely don’t mind.
  - mlajtos 4y ago
    Thank you :)

hgsgm 4y ago

Especially because the post has several mistakes that commenters here corrected. Including a case where he failed to understand the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and proposed an infinitely more inefficient solution: > We were just presented with integral calculus and there it was – you can get an average of some function with definitive integral. That is literaly measuring car's speed at every instant!

mlajtos 4y ago

> I think it would come across better if the author mixed times where their non-traditional intuition gave them the wrong answer. Oh, there are a lot of instances where I was biased and my actions were dead wrong. (example story: https://mlajtos.mu/posts/i-told-my-crush-her-leaked-password https://mlajtos.mu/posts/i-told-my-crush-her-leaked-password ) This post was about rare moments when I was right. I'll try to write about my failures more often, as the source material is basically endless.