jimrandomh comments on Politics and Awful Art - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 23 May 2011 01:48:02PM 10 points [-]

Needing an answer that had an irrelevant property (number of syllables) forced him to consider more of the answer space than he otherwise would have. I don't believe that looking for artistically pleasing things would produce more rational answers per unit time, but it does at least enforce a lower bound on time spent.