EternalArchon comments on How to brainstorm effectively - Less Wrong

43 Post author: PECOS-9 19 May 2012 09:29PM

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Comment author: EternalArchon 20 May 2012 06:43:10AM *  2 points [-]

This is a great post full of low investment methods with potentially high payoffs.

Yet, I find the structure of this post to be personally hilarious! My favorite technique/provocation is not listed: randomly matching successful systems(or their principles) into new pairs. While effective, this notion is commonly rejected- that a new combination of old ideas/principles is not new, unworthy of respect, and furthermore can be considered criminal behavior(a violation of intellectual ownership). I find the absence here understandable and even defensible- but the irony of starting the post with a quote from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is too much.

Comment author: Fhyve 20 May 2012 09:35:25PM 0 points [-]

Can you give an example?