Whatever solution you give to a hard problem should give insight or be consistent with answers given to other hard problems. This is similar in spirit to:
“http://lesswrong.com/lw/1kn/two_truths_and_a_lie/″
and a point made by Robin Hanson (Youtube link: the point is at 3:31)
”...the first thing to do with puzzles is [to] try to resist the temptation to explain them one at a time. I think the right, disciplined way to deal puzzles is to collect a bunch of them: lay them all out on the table and find a small number of hypotheses that can explain a large number of puzzles at once.”
His point as I understand was that people often narrowly focus on a limited number of health-related puzzles and that we could produce better policy if we attempted to attack many puzzles at once (consider things such as fear of death, the need to show we care, status-regulation, human social dynamics: particularly signaling loyalty).
Edit: I had originally meant to point out that solving several problems is a meta-thought about solutions to problems: i.e. they should relate to solutions to other problems
Did you know that you can add #t=211 to the end of a YouTube URL to make it start 211 seconds into the vid?
Your link would become “point made by Robin Hanson”.
Expanding on the go meta point:
Solve many hard problems at once
Whatever solution you give to a hard problem should give insight or be consistent with answers given to other hard problems. This is similar in spirit to: “http://lesswrong.com/lw/1kn/two_truths_and_a_lie/″ and a point made by Robin Hanson (Youtube link: the point is at 3:31) ”...the first thing to do with puzzles is [to] try to resist the temptation to explain them one at a time. I think the right, disciplined way to deal puzzles is to collect a bunch of them: lay them all out on the table and find a small number of hypotheses that can explain a large number of puzzles at once.”
His point as I understand was that people often narrowly focus on a limited number of health-related puzzles and that we could produce better policy if we attempted to attack many puzzles at once (consider things such as fear of death, the need to show we care, status-regulation, human social dynamics: particularly signaling loyalty).
Edit: I had originally meant to point out that solving several problems is a meta-thought about solutions to problems: i.e. they should relate to solutions to other problems
Did you know that you can add #t=211 to the end of a YouTube URL to make it start 211 seconds into the vid? Your link would become “point made by Robin Hanson”.
Thanks!