benny comments on The "Outside the Box" Box - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benny 27 September 2008 04:06:39PM 2 points [-]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb said at one point that his next book will be about tinkering - how many discoveries were made while the researcher was seeking something else. So directed research is good because it provides an excuse to "tinker", to spot the unexpected and go off on a tangent.

Have you spoken to Taleb? Seems there's lots of common ground. He likes to learn directly from people what's happening.