This probably isn't obvious to you... but the only ideas you can ever hear that way are the ideas you've already heard elsewhere. That's why "rubber duck progr

This probably isn't obvious to you... but the only ideas you can ever hear that way are the ideas you've already heard elsewhere. That's why "rubber duck programming" seems so cool to some dweebs. It's not that they receive any true insight to it. But it helps them go back over all the other rules that they've learned elsewhere. Likely, it works better for some people than others, because those people have learned more rules. But they'll never discover another new one, or be inspired by some epiphany that way. Hell, I'm pretty sure all of this is implicated in the Flynn Effect. There are a bunch of other implications more disturbing still...