Having separate terms for these two positions has been particularly useful to me, because I have often felt reluctant to really lay out positions which were motivated by my private guts and for which I did not have a good public position for. Reminding myself of the difference and that it’s legitimate to take your time in working out the position implied by your private guts, has made it feel more legitimate to even try.
I view my work with my multi-agent minds sequence as an extended attempt to work out model for which I initially had strong intuitions but no legible elaboration, and I’m glad that I had this post encouraging me to give it a shot anyway.
Having separate terms for these two positions has been particularly useful to me, because I have often felt reluctant to really lay out positions which were motivated by my private guts and for which I did not have a good public position for. Reminding myself of the difference and that it’s legitimate to take your time in working out the position implied by your private guts, has made it feel more legitimate to even try.
I view my work with my multi-agent minds sequence as an extended attempt to work out model for which I initially had strong intuitions but no legible elaboration, and I’m glad that I had this post encouraging me to give it a shot anyway.