I’d say It’s similar to vetting ideas by their level of approval among the general public, except, I think, rather better. However, if you’re not going to solve it for yourself anyway and going to be on the internet anyway, you might well figure out what the domain expert consensus is in roughly the same amount of time and that would be better still.
That’s not what I’d intended to intend.
… it’s an interesting idea, though. So—what does the LW community think about vetting ideas by their level of approval in the LW community? :)
As availability heuristic-appointed representative of the LW community, I also disapprove.
I disapprove.
I see what you did there.
I’d say It’s similar to vetting ideas by their level of approval among the general public, except, I think, rather better. However, if you’re not going to solve it for yourself anyway and going to be on the internet anyway, you might well figure out what the domain expert consensus is in roughly the same amount of time and that would be better still.