lessdazed comments on Future of Humanity? - Less Wrong

-17 Post author: RickJS 24 May 2011 09:46PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 25 May 2011 10:16:22PM 3 points [-]

I invite you to listen (read) in an unusual way. "Consider it": think WITH this idea for a while. There will be plenty of time to refute it later. I find that, if I START with, "That's so wrong!", I really weaken my ability to "pan for the gold".

I would be very interested if you could provide examples of this approach helping you, particularly if those examples would not have been better approached by the similar advice of refraining from discussing solutions until after a situation has been thoroughly analyzed.