Hey, not to sound intimidating or anything, but it’s a sad fact that while Michael Vassar and I have gigantic webs of precomputed original ideas, we can also generate original ideas in real time.
Sort-of. I can generate original ideas in real time IF by real time you mean ’thinking about my ideas when I’m speaking and half thinking half listening when the other person is speaking”. That’s not the best conversational dynamic though. It’s better when I actually allow/create pauses between listening to the other person and thinking (the opposite dynamic from my more common mode of interrupting the other person). If my thoughts are a few seconds ahead of my words much of the time when I’m talking I’m more likely to be able to spare enough attention to notice the other person’s feelings. Likewise, if I’m fully listening to them I’m more likely to catch nuances and deepen my understanding faster. Also, my thoughts are partially transparent. If I’m not fully listening the person is likely to get that impression, not feel understood, make less effort to understand me, and waste conversational time by repetition in order to ensure that they are understood.
A gigantic web of precomputed ideas also has a bigger border area where you can generate new ideas with relatively lightweight combination and modification of the existing ones.
Hey, not to sound intimidating or anything, but it’s a sad fact that while Michael Vassar and I have gigantic webs of precomputed original ideas, we can also generate original ideas in real time.
Sort-of. I can generate original ideas in real time IF by real time you mean ’thinking about my ideas when I’m speaking and half thinking half listening when the other person is speaking”. That’s not the best conversational dynamic though. It’s better when I actually allow/create pauses between listening to the other person and thinking (the opposite dynamic from my more common mode of interrupting the other person). If my thoughts are a few seconds ahead of my words much of the time when I’m talking I’m more likely to be able to spare enough attention to notice the other person’s feelings. Likewise, if I’m fully listening to them I’m more likely to catch nuances and deepen my understanding faster. Also, my thoughts are partially transparent. If I’m not fully listening the person is likely to get that impression, not feel understood, make less effort to understand me, and waste conversational time by repetition in order to ensure that they are understood.
A gigantic web of precomputed ideas also has a bigger border area where you can generate new ideas with relatively lightweight combination and modification of the existing ones.
That’s definitely going on.
So where are these huge number of original ideas?
By original do you me that in your very limited scope of “knowledge” they are original or do you mean in the grand scope of all ideas?
I would love to see a list of some of these “original ideas” otherwise I feel I must say that I smell a strong aroma of bullshit.
Food for thought....