I appreciate this point, but personally I am probably more like 70-30 for general thinking, with variance depending on the topic. So much of thinking about the world is trust-based. My views on historical explanations virtually never depend on my reading of primary documents—they depend on my assessment of what the proportional consensus of expert historians thinks. Same with economics, or physics, or lots of things.
When I’m dealing directly with an issue, like biosecurity, it makes sense to have a higher split − 80-20 or 90-10 - but it’s still much easier to navigate if you know the landscape of views. For something like AI, I just don’t trust my own take on many arguments—I really rely a lot on the different communities of AI experts (such as they are).
I think most people most of the time don’t know enough about an issue to justify a 90-10 split in issue vs. view thinking. However, I should note all this is regarding the right split of personal attention; for public debate, I can understand wanting a greater focus on the object level (because the view-level should hopefully be served well by good object-level work anyway).
I appreciate this point, but personally I am probably more like 70-30 for general thinking, with variance depending on the topic. So much of thinking about the world is trust-based. My views on historical explanations virtually never depend on my reading of primary documents—they depend on my assessment of what the proportional consensus of expert historians thinks. Same with economics, or physics, or lots of things.
When I’m dealing directly with an issue, like biosecurity, it makes sense to have a higher split − 80-20 or 90-10 - but it’s still much easier to navigate if you know the landscape of views. For something like AI, I just don’t trust my own take on many arguments—I really rely a lot on the different communities of AI experts (such as they are).
I think most people most of the time don’t know enough about an issue to justify a 90-10 split in issue vs. view thinking. However, I should note all this is regarding the right split of personal attention; for public debate, I can understand wanting a greater focus on the object level (because the view-level should hopefully be served well by good object-level work anyway).