Getting lost in the land of ideas

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• Author: subconscious.substack.com

• Title: Getting lost in the land of ideas

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• Our creative tools should help us converge efficiently, right? Well, there’s a dilemma here. Converging too early gets you stuck in local maxima — e.g. stuck at the top of a dull foothill in the landscape of ideas. — Updated on 2024-03-03 16:45:25 — Group:Public

• this is called deception. To go up, you paradoxically must go down. To find something interesting, you paradoxically must let go of objectives. — Updated on 2024-03-03 16:46:20 — Group:Public

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• Our creative tools should help us converge efficiently, right? Well, there’s a dilemma here. Converging too early gets you stuck in local maxima — e.g. stuck at the top of a dull foothill in the landscape of ideas. — Updated on 2024-03-03 16:45:25

• this is called deception. To go up, you paradoxically must go down. To find something interesting, you paradoxically must let go of objectives. — Updated on 2024-03-03 16:46:20