People tend to simplify a topic when they know little about it and view it in far mode, whereas greater familiarity reveals more detail.

“I mean, it's Robin Hanson has this abstraction of like seeing things in near mode versus far mode,”

“And I think if you don't know a lot about the topic, then you see it sort of in far mode and you sort of simplify even”

“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.”