J.K. comments on The Ritual - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 October 2008 11:52PM

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Comment author: J.K. 12 October 2008 08:08:32PM 3 points [-]

Psy-Kosh, amazingly enough, looping does not help progress at all. Any internal monologue is made up of what you already know. Insight, creativity, etc. comes all at once and is something entirely new. A clear mind can be more focused on a problem, even a specific one, than one cluttered with known material. Try it!