Vaniver comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Larks 05 April 2011 01:19:13PM 7 points [-]

No, hopefully they were re-discovered. We can improve our publicity skills, but we can't make ideas easier to independantly re-invent.

Comment author: Vaniver 05 April 2011 05:00:02PM 2 points [-]

No, hopefully they were re-discovered. We can improve our publicity skills, but we can't make ideas easier to independantly re-invent.

Really? If meme Z is the result of meme X and Y colliding, then it seems like spreading X and Y makes it easier to independently re-invent Z.

Comment author: Larks 05 April 2011 05:11:14PM 1 point [-]

Yes - by 'independently' I mean 'unaffected by any publicity work we might do'.