You’ve written a lot of articles and blog posts recently so I just want to say I feel happy each time you upload.
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Consider special emergency contexts with extreme time pressure, with inaction being a clearly bad option. In that context, it’s better to pick something and act on it even if you have intuitive doubts, rather than try to consider more when there’s no time. It’s better to do an action that might work over delaying and therefore guaranteeing failure. However, this isn’t really an exception regarding how to deal with conflicting ideas because you shouldn’t be conflicted about it. You should both intuitively and intellectually/explicitly understand the time pressure and want to pick something even if it’s not perfect. People generally already have an intuitive understanding of time pressure and know that sometimes it’s better to try (even if you’re unsure of the right plan) than to delay enough that you don’t get a chance at all. People may have mental conflicts about time pressure, but at least logically or rationally there isn’t a particularly hard issue there: time pressure isn’t a very challenging scenario for CF to address in the abstract. Note that it’s also fine to just do what you intuitively want to in time pressure; time pressure doesn’t bias things for or against intuitions or explicit ideas; the thing to do differently in time pressure is object less to reaching any conclusion (be less picky and critical when all parts of you agree that all the conclusions you’re considering are better than running out of time without acting).
So there isn’t really a mechanical way to choose, except of being less objectionable to any proposed solution. It depends on the specific explicit idea, intuition and time pressure.
In some situations you won’t even have time to think explicitly, so that’s an easy choice for intuition.
I know you’ve talked about intuition in debate, but I think you covered many different aspects of it in this one. Intuition in debate is what bothered me most at first, but I’m convinced about the explanations you gave here. I can’t remember how you handled this question in the other articles so I’m not comparing them here.