Well, so one thing I’m sometimes trying to do is not justify a claim but justify paying attention to the claim, so the kind of thing I’m doing is not presenting evidence that it’s true but just evidence that something sufficiently interesting is happening near the claim that it’s worth paying attention to. I think this can get pretty non-gearsy in some sense; I’m often relying on mostly nonverbal intuitions in myself and hoping to trigger analogous nonverbal intuitions in someone else.
Well, so one thing I’m sometimes trying to do is not justify a claim but justify paying attention to the claim, so the kind of thing I’m doing is not presenting evidence that it’s true but just evidence that something sufficiently interesting is happening near the claim that it’s worth paying attention to. I think this can get pretty non-gearsy in some sense; I’m often relying on mostly nonverbal intuitions in myself and hoping to trigger analogous nonverbal intuitions in someone else.