For what it's worth, I read this less as "dismissal" and more as a statement of orthogonality. Novelty is neither positively nor negatively correlated with lear

For what it's worth, I read this less as "dismissal" and more as a statement of orthogonality. Novelty is neither positively nor negatively correlated with learning; in other words, if your goal is to learn, novelty simply doesn't need to enter the equation. > I really don't think that novelty and original work [...] are opposed to the previous sentence. So I don't think you disagree with your parent comment.