TheOtherDave comments on Hack Away at the Edges - Less Wrong

48 Post author: lukeprog 01 December 2011 01:26PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 01 December 2011 07:21:29PM 9 points [-]

(nods) Damned straight.

I sometimes start group solution brainstorming sessions by announcing "So, here's a Very Bad Idea for how we might go about solving this problem. [Explanation] This is, as I say, a Very Bad Idea, for several reasons. Does someone have a better one?" It no longer startles me how often people then proceed to build on the VBI and turn it into something viable.