I both approve of this problem solving method and realize I don’t know what’s going on in the minds of people you have needed to defend this idea to.
I’d paraphrase your idea as running with the hypothetical “what if these ideas were connected?” A huge amount of my creative leaps come from exploring “what if”s. It feels very simple to keep my “what if” explorations seperate from my most rigorous known truths, at least for intellectual topics.
So an actual question that would help me understand more is “what have other people said in conversations were you were defending this idea?”
I think there is a possible culture where people say a bunch of inside-view things, and run with speculations all the time, and another possible culture where people mostly only say literally true things that can be put into the listener’s head directly. (I associate these cultures with the books R:A-Z and superintelligence respectively.) In the first culture, I don’t feel the need to defend myself. However I feel like I am often also interacting with people from the second culture, and that makes me feel like I need a disclaimer before I think in public with speculation that conflates a bunch of concepts.
I both approve of this problem solving method and realize I don’t know what’s going on in the minds of people you have needed to defend this idea to.
I’d paraphrase your idea as running with the hypothetical “what if these ideas were connected?” A huge amount of my creative leaps come from exploring “what if”s. It feels very simple to keep my “what if” explorations seperate from my most rigorous known truths, at least for intellectual topics.
So an actual question that would help me understand more is “what have other people said in conversations were you were defending this idea?”
I think there is a possible culture where people say a bunch of inside-view things, and run with speculations all the time, and another possible culture where people mostly only say literally true things that can be put into the listener’s head directly. (I associate these cultures with the books R:A-Z and superintelligence respectively.) In the first culture, I don’t feel the need to defend myself. However I feel like I am often also interacting with people from the second culture, and that makes me feel like I need a disclaimer before I think in public with speculation that conflates a bunch of concepts.