Risto_Saarelma comments on How to always have interesting conversations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 June 2010 10:03:56PM 7 points [-]

Hey, not to sound intimidating or anything, but it's a sad fact that while Michael Vassar and I have gigantic webs of precomputed original ideas, we can also generate original ideas in real time.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 15 June 2010 08:04:05PM 9 points [-]

A gigantic web of precomputed ideas also has a bigger border area where you can generate new ideas with relatively lightweight combination and modification of the existing ones.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 June 2010 07:14:04PM 3 points [-]

That's definitely going on.