lessdazed comments on Open thread, October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 October 2011 09:57:12AM *  6 points [-]

Now, in what situation should we not promote that status quo?

Bad thinking happens without me helping to promote it. If there ever came a time when human thinking in general prematurely converged due to a limitation of reasonably sound (by human standards) thought then I would perhaps advocate adding random noise to the thoughts of some of the population in a hope that one of the stupid people got lucky and arrived at a new insight. But as of right now there is no need to pay more respect to silly substandard drivel than what the work itself merits.

Comment author: lessdazed 03 October 2011 10:03:26AM 2 points [-]

If there ever came a time when human thinking in general prematurely converged...I would perhaps advocate adding random noise to the thoughts of some of the population

Keen, I hadn't thought of that, upvoted.