Has turned into

> scientists intuition is less reliable because the scientists are acting at the limits of our understanding

Is that your gut telling you that?

If you have a lack of knowledge, the ‘rational’ set of things to try can be so large that it’s overwhelming/impossible to actually try them. You have to pick something.

Intuition can help there (and is commonly found in almost all major discoveries), even if it isn’t necessarily right. Since it’s still more right than not listening to it.

But then you need to pay attention and do some rational analysis to verify, and then iterate.

My intuition has never been any help on picking them.

Not listening to it, and just not buying the tickets would be more profitable.

Honestly, you're trying to claim that intuition is the foundation, when it's almost as bad as blind luck.

The most exciting phrase ever uttered in science is "Huh, that's not right" or "Woops"

Or, after playing 10 times and not winning, to stop.

I prefer the term "persistent" although people around me have translated that to "stubborn" somehow :)

Why do you think this?

I'm saying intuition in a complex space we don't understand is less reliable than intuition in a simple well understood space.

Recognising that someone is angry is simpler than discovering how gravity works.

Science has a high failure rate and scientists heavily lean on their intuition.

This does not imply that it is intuition that causes the high failure rate.

Some people share similar body language for displaying certain emotions, but they are not universal.

Further you may be able to tell what some people are feeling by their body language, but there will be many many more examples where you miss the emotion.

Worse, the ones that you can get an idea of, it's very VERY rare for you to know the reason that people are in that emotive state.

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This even applies to people close to you, who you think that you know.