And I think we’re mostly still trapped in a false implicit dogma that creativity is an innate talent that is possessed by some rare individuals and can’t be duplicated in anyone who isn’t already creative. What I’m hoping to be true is that you can train people to come up with good ideas, and that more importantly, if we can harness the ability of this community to look for errors in reasoning, even bad ideas can slowly be transformed into good ones, as long as we can come up with a decent framework for making that process robust.
Agree about creation:critique ratio. Generativity/creativity training is the rationalist communities’ current bottleneck IMO.
And I think we’re mostly still trapped in a false implicit dogma that creativity is an innate talent that is possessed by some rare individuals and can’t be duplicated in anyone who isn’t already creative. What I’m hoping to be true is that you can train people to come up with good ideas, and that more importantly, if we can harness the ability of this community to look for errors in reasoning, even bad ideas can slowly be transformed into good ones, as long as we can come up with a decent framework for making that process robust.