I’ve curated this question. It has lots of properties of great discussions: someone posting a genuine question that they’re confused about; lots of people chipping in with ideas and suggestions; someone distilling the ideas into a single place (i.e. the currently top-voted answer by Kaj), clearly making progress. And this is all about a key problem, of becoming intellectually generative.
I’ve been looking for a question to curate since we launched, and while I thought the type I’d curate would be one where someone definitively answered a concrete question, this one has surprised me with the quality of its discussion. Kaj’s answer, the answers that Kaj summarised, as well as An1lam’s and Lukas_Gloor’s, should consider themselves part of this curation (and people reading this post will read your answers). Thanks all!
I’ve curated this question. It has lots of properties of great discussions: someone posting a genuine question that they’re confused about; lots of people chipping in with ideas and suggestions; someone distilling the ideas into a single place (i.e. the currently top-voted answer by Kaj), clearly making progress. And this is all about a key problem, of becoming intellectually generative.
I’ve been looking for a question to curate since we launched, and while I thought the type I’d curate would be one where someone definitively answered a concrete question, this one has surprised me with the quality of its discussion. Kaj’s answer, the answers that Kaj summarised, as well as An1lam’s and Lukas_Gloor’s, should consider themselves part of this curation (and people reading this post will read your answers). Thanks all!