VNKKET comments on Five-minute rationality techniques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VNKKET 12 August 2010 04:09:15PM 2 points [-]

You changed my mind. I'm worried my candidate will hurt more than it helps because people will conflate "bad idea generators" with "disreputable idea generators" -- they might think, "that idea came to me in my sleep, so I guess that means I'm supposed to ignore it."

A partially-fixed candidate: If an idea was generated by a clearly bad method, the idea is probably bad.