Intuition Reliability Debate

The cluster discusses the value, reliability, and nature of intuition versus explicit reasoning, debating whether to trust gut feelings, their potential for error, and how they relate to unconscious pattern recognition.

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Sample Comments

mhh__ Jul 27, 2023 View on HN

Intuition shouldn't be considered harmful.

maaku Feb 23, 2015 View on HN

Reasoning from intuition has a terrible track record, I'm afraid.

guerrilla Sep 20, 2019 View on HN

I know you said intuition but can you elaborate why you think that?

2510c39011c5 May 15, 2015 View on HN

It's nice that sometimes intuition works out better than desperate reasoning...

jimrandomh Nov 6, 2010 View on HN

Intuition represents all the reasoning that your brain does but which you aren't able to put into words. In many cases, that includes important information and heuristics which you would be ill advised to ignore. However, that also includes information and heuristics that may be incorrect; so if your intuition disagrees with your explicit reasoning, you should debug both to figure out which one's wrong and how.

andruby Jun 10, 2020 View on HN

Would we call that "intuition"?

gowld Feb 17, 2018 View on HN

Intuition is not proof. We all have many intuitive ideas that are not actually true!

amirouche Aug 19, 2015 View on HN

why do you think is difficult to check your intuitions?

zdkl Jul 19, 2017 View on HN

Care to elaborate on the "intuitive sense" part?

cLeEOGPw Jun 21, 2016 View on HN

This is called intuition and not analysis.