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It's a thought experiment, so no. Generally, when something is cited as being a hard problem in a scientific field in which you are not an expert, you can be p
by aisofteng 9y ago
It's a thought experiment, so no.
Generally, when something is cited as being a hard problem in a scientific field in which you are not an expert, you can be pretty certain that the first "pretty obvious" thought that comes into your head isn't a shining light into a sea of intellectual darkness but is instead drive-by layman speculation that is almost definitely entirely wrong.
- leephillips 9y agoI don't know where and I don't know when, but I'm going to quote you.
- Gravityloss 9y agoMaybe it's one way to ask for clarification on the problem?
- cryptarch 9y agoI do that, I try to find loopholes and edge cases to better define my mental model and then test them against the knowledge of people who know better than me. I figure GGP is trying to do the same, and not sending in a paper to Nature right now.
- kirykl 9y agoUnrelated to physics, but amusingly in big companies the opposite seems to be true. For problems cited as hard, the first pretty obvious thought is a bright light into intellectual darkness
- dTal 9y agoI believe you have just coined the definitive formulation of this principle. Would you like to name it? I humbly suggest "dTal's razor".