Lately I’ve found myself wanting to make the argument that intellectual generativity is very important, and that you should be very careful with subtle forces that can corrode it.
“Generativity” is the sort of word that seems to come up a lot in casual conversations in my current circle but I just went looking for a good explanatory post and couldn’t find one. I’m fairly confident that someone somewhere has talked about it (not necessarily on LW).
Curious if anyone knows of good existing writing?
And if anyone wanted to write up a fresh explanation that’d be cool as well. (A possible outcome is treating the answer section here as an opportunity to write a first draft that maybe turns into a post if there’s consensus the answer is good)
[Question] What’s the best explanation of intellectual generativity?
Lately I’ve found myself wanting to make the argument that intellectual generativity is very important, and that you should be very careful with subtle forces that can corrode it.
“Generativity” is the sort of word that seems to come up a lot in casual conversations in my current circle but I just went looking for a good explanatory post and couldn’t find one. I’m fairly confident that someone somewhere has talked about it (not necessarily on LW).
Curious if anyone knows of good existing writing?
And if anyone wanted to write up a fresh explanation that’d be cool as well. (A possible outcome is treating the answer section here as an opportunity to write a first draft that maybe turns into a post if there’s consensus the answer is good)