I didn’t read it as trying to be persuasive, just explaining their perspective.
(Note, also, like, they did cut this line from the resources, it’s not even a thing currently stated in the document that I know of. This is me claiming (kinda critically) this would have been a good sentence to say, in particular in combo with the rest of the paragraph I suggested following it up with.)
Experts have illegible intuitions all the time, and the thing to do is say “Hey, I’ve got some intuitions here, which is why I am confident. It makes sense that you do not have those intuitions or particularly trust them. But, fwiw it’s part of the story for why I’m personally confident. Meanwhile, here’s my best attempt to legibilize them” (which, these essays seem like a reasonable stab at. You can, of course, disagree that the legibilization makes sense to you)
I didn’t read it as trying to be persuasive, just explaining their perspective.
(Note, also, like, they did cut this line from the resources, it’s not even a thing currently stated in the document that I know of. This is me claiming (kinda critically) this would have been a good sentence to say, in particular in combo with the rest of the paragraph I suggested following it up with.)
Experts have illegible intuitions all the time, and the thing to do is say “Hey, I’ve got some intuitions here, which is why I am confident. It makes sense that you do not have those intuitions or particularly trust them. But, fwiw it’s part of the story for why I’m personally confident. Meanwhile, here’s my best attempt to legibilize them” (which, these essays seem like a reasonable stab at. You can, of course, disagree that the legibilization makes sense to you)