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Intuition: Why should we be cautious of it?

The Why Factor

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How to Develop Intuitions in a Regular World

You cannot have intuitions unless the world is sufficiently regular for therre to be rules that you unconsciously learn to apply. When a system is chaotic or completely unpredictable, like the stock markets, say, people think they have intuitions, but actually they don't. They don't have intuition that are skilful or that you can trust. So those are the three conditions that garry line and i came up with, a regular world, an opportunity to learn it, and rapid feedback from the world. You shouldn't trust the intuitions of people who don't meet those conditions, even if they're completely confident in their intuitions. Confidence is not a good cation of

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