Where do you most often come across interesting ideas—especially weird or surprising ones?
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I'm not sure! Maybe it's just that we've been exposed to so many ideas that the only ones that still seem novel to us are the ones incubating in Galapagos-style isolation. Or maybe inundating ourselves with others' ideas really does inhibit us from thinking up our own.
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Maybe this is why respondents to your poll were so worried about Facebook... a more connected world is less epistemically fertile ground?
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Children have read less! Show them something useful we take for granted and ask how they think it could be better or other uses.
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Spot on. Undermine and challenge the things you take for granted[0]. You will be pleasantly surprised or terrified. Either way... it’s what you need. [0] Especially when a lot of time, money, smart people have focused on the problem and not moved forward.
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@ESYudkowsky also wrote about the "sophistication effect" which is worth revisiting.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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