[FRIAM] description - explanation - metaphor - model

[glen]

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y4bkJTtG3s5d6v36k/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away

I can't help but hope there are other causes for being wrong. 8^) For example, in a Kierkegaardian "throw down with your best guess" sense, e.g. the champions like Krugman, when their simplifications are shown to be wrong, I couldn't call them either dishonest or stupid. I'm OK with calling them "premature", but that's not really denigrating in the same way. As I tried to say before, a premature advocacy may be necessary to disambiguating the problem ... which is necessary for good problem solving. This is why I like the adjective "authentic". Even if some yahoo is completely wrong about some concept, treating them as if they're authentic presents constructive paths to various solutions.

On December 26, 2019 1:11:30 PM PST, "uǝlƃ ☣" <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>These champions can be viewed as sacrificing themselves for the greater
>good. They adopt a position and advocate it in spite of their own inner
>homunculus shouting at them that they should be more reasonable ...
>take criticism as constructive and respond in metered and polite
>language, stick to the facts, be willing to change one's mind. But by
>making these (purposeful) discretizations, they are simplifying the
>domain and, thereby, making potential 80/20 solutions *feasible*. 

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glen