How to do Optimal Scientific Research, by DragonGod:
Create a LaTeX document summarizing your preliminary ideas
Share it on LessWrong for feedback
Create more LaTeX documents
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Profit
One one hand, 1) and 2) pretty accurately reflect real research, except you're usually sharing with your advisor/peers/etc. On the other hand, they're the easy part :-)
This is technically true, but I'm writing papers on how to do research (as opposed to conducting the research itself), so I don't see a problem with it?
How to do Optimal Scientific Research, by DragonGod:
One one hand, 1) and 2) pretty accurately reflect real research, except you're usually sharing with your advisor/peers/etc. On the other hand, they're the easy part :-)