I think in general creativity and generativity are undervalued and undersupplied, and I am very hesitant to support any norms that seem to disencentivize generativity. I am in favor of people writing up more half-baked ideas.
I agree that “writing up” ideas is useful. To me that phrase implies laying out a case for a given idea. I don’t consider threads like https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/PqzoEQhxJZ5WgFcvR/a-proposed-measure-of-sanity-for-nations or https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/c5ubuEN32hFCTaCs7/fire-drill-proposal a writeup of the kind we want to encourage irrespectable of the quality of the idea.
I think in general creativity and generativity are undervalued and undersupplied, and I am very hesitant to support any norms that seem to disencentivize generativity. I am in favor of people writing up more half-baked ideas.
I agree that “writing up” ideas is useful. To me that phrase implies laying out a case for a given idea. I don’t consider threads like https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/PqzoEQhxJZ5WgFcvR/a-proposed-measure-of-sanity-for-nations or https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/c5ubuEN32hFCTaCs7/fire-drill-proposal a writeup of the kind we want to encourage irrespectable of the quality of the idea.