Personally I find my own most innovative ideas come when I don't consider what other people think at all, but just look at the problem domain and try to really

Personally I find my own most innovative ideas come when I don't consider what other people think at all, but just look at the problem domain and try to really get inside the dynamics or constraints of the problem and then try to solve that. Also, really unclear how you can look at human history and conclude that the intelligence of our decisions are decreasing. I'm not aware of any domain where people now don't outperform the past significantly. Even today's run of the mill violin players are equal to the virtuosi of the past. We've mostly gotten rid of slavery and war; have far excelled any prior time for medicine. Science is still doubling every decade or what ever it is. Even our propaganda is more effective - never before have there been so many organizations dedicated to a flat earth.