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MattG comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: polymathwannabe 11 August 2015 01:24PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2015 02:18:14AM *  4 points [-]

I don't think the only purpose of this forum is to make well thought out good ideas and then refute if they are in fact well thought out good ideas.

Sometimes it's great to have a thread we're we use crazier less refined ideas to help with brainstorming or as the creative seed of a better idea.

Comment author: pianoforte611 12 August 2015 04:07:49AM 8 points [-]

I am in strong support of unrefined ideas, brainstorming and revision. Thinking about more, its not the undefinedness. There is a certain class of ideas that personally frustrate me - they are ideas that are deliberately edgy and extreme, and usually involve violating some common Western value.

I'd say in this thread, there about half top level comments which are genuinely unrefined uncertain but interesting ideas. The rest, maybe less than half are edgy contrarian ideas. Although looking back to the last Crazy Ideas thread, over 90% seem like genuinely experimental ideas. Maybe I should just wait for a few more iterations.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 August 2015 03:24:12PM 2 points [-]

How about renaming it to "Brainstorming Thread"?