magfrump comments on What Makes My Attempt Special? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 26 September 2010 02:14:52PM 8 points [-]

8) If the question is in a field X, but the question was posed by people not in field X. This is a good sign.

Note that this sometimes happens in math where people will pose a question in one area of math and not realize that it is really equivalent to or related to some question in another branch of math.

Comment author: magfrump 26 September 2010 05:48:11PM 3 points [-]

Another one for mathematics:

People have asked this question before and created thorough answers, but you add one to the dimension (or rank or genus or...) and see what happens!