Abstract, deductive, or Bayesian reasoning alone is less powerful than many people believe because understanding the real world's richness and detail requires direct observation, not just reading.

“you know, you see a lot more detail. Like in general, I think the thing I would say and the reason I also believe that just like abstract reasoning and like sort of deductive reasoning or even Bayesian reasoning by itself is not like sufficient or like is not as powerful as many other people think.”

“thing is because i think there's just this like enormous amount of like richness and detail in the real world that like you you just can't like read about it”

“like you you need to see it and uh obviously that like that is not an obstacle to”