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To be fair most of "revolutionary" ideas are quackery so it's a good heuristic.
by moonchrome 3y ago
To be fair most of "revolutionary" ideas are quackery so it's a good heuristic.
- jstanley 3y agoIt's a good heuristic if you just want to be right more often, but if you want to find new good ideas then it'll rule out every single one of them. Related: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost-always-work https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost...
- moonchrome 3y agoThis implies new ideas have to be revolutionary ? It's usually possible to progress in the existing direction. Science advances one funeral at a time and all that jazz.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoWith such a heuristic, if you seek food, and most of your environment is not food, so you dismiss your entire environment as not food, and refuse to seek, you die :)