FWIW I think the Eliciting Latent Knowledge problem doesn’t stand well on its own as an introduction, and thinking about this problem is way better when you see the bigger picture that Paul is working through and used to generate it, in his post My Research Methodology (my review here). That walks through multiple of the major steps in Paul’s reasoning that led to this problem being brought up, rather than just dumping you in it, and is written in Paul’s native voice. I’d rank that post as substantially more useful than this one.
FWIW I think the Eliciting Latent Knowledge problem doesn’t stand well on its own as an introduction, and thinking about this problem is way better when you see the bigger picture that Paul is working through and used to generate it, in his post My Research Methodology (my review here). That walks through multiple of the major steps in Paul’s reasoning that led to this problem being brought up, rather than just dumping you in it, and is written in Paul’s native voice. I’d rank that post as substantially more useful than this one.