Edison blah blah blah. Shakespeare blah blah blah. Steve Jobs blah blah. Somehow we have to reduce this genius to a simple algorithm!
Try. Evaluate. Adjust. Repeat. Don't stop.
Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The assertion you're making is a testable idea. You can check if some apparent trait is genetic or cultural by looking at children adopted by other ethnicities. They've done quite a number of studies like that, including studies on identical twins adopted by different parents, which gives you matching DNA. The reason scientists aren't saying such things, is because it's pretty clearly wrong.
Just google ashkenazi genius, jewish Nobel prize, its all over the internet. Heres a wikipedia page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
I hope you do realize there are many claims which are both entirely wrong and all over the internet?
You can't judge evidence based on a popularity contest.
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#23Personally I feel that creativity is something like saturating a solution with ideas until you get that one seed crystal and then everything just comes together. If it wasn't already full of thoughts and ideas already, that seed would simply dissolve.
Which is also why creativity suffers in totalitarian regimes like China. One or two of those ideas are bound to step on the toes of the establishment, but they need to be explored as part of the process.
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#24>creative greatness appears to be doing things differently
I've done things differently just out of boredom caused by doing a task, the same way repeatedly.
Example: I sometimes get tired of a particular food and tweak it by adding a new ingredient or eating it with something different.
>Edison was unlucky—he failed to invent fuel cells. The first comercially successful fuel cells were developed in the mid-twentieth century, long after Edison moved on to pursuing other ideas. >Edison always had somewhere to channel his efforts whenever he ran into temporary obstacles
This is completely different from the "Edison never gave up and kept working till he succeeded" talks.
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#25Personally I feel that creativity is something like saturating a solution with ideas until you get that one seed crystal and then everything just comes together. If it wasn't already full of thoughts and ideas already, that seed would simply dissolve.
this was part of my concern over the current dislike of tech's mantra "move fast and break things".
the mistake was tech thought it was somehow righteously above all others, so its good that people are finally saying 'no, you are you are jerks', but I think we are all jerks and we should accept that and move on. Furthermore, we should accept that making mistakes is a necessary byproduct of innovation. I think these concepts are tied together, I am just doing a bad job at communicating it.
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#26Creativity is a numbers game, and some brains have a higher batting average
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is definitely a help. I've created a LOT of crap, but I've had a good number of successes solely due to quantity. However, 80% of success really is showing up. You have to try, and not get discouraged. I was dirt poor as a kid, homeless twice before age 9, and I've had to rebuild my life twice as an adult. Simply pushing forward was a huge part of my success today. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.…
The difference between a failed businessperson and a successful one is the successful one tried again.
The same could be said about lottery winners.
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It's just politically incorrect, so mainstream scientists wont publish it/arent discussing it in public. Read about ahskenazi jewish people. Both founders of FB and Google are ashkenazi for example
The assertion you're making is a testable idea. You can check if some apparent trait is genetic or cultural by looking at children adopted by other ethnicities. They've done quite a number of studies like that, including studies on identical twins adopted by different parents, which gives you matching DNA. The reason scientists aren't saying such things, is because it's pretty clearly wrong.
> The reason scientists aren't saying such things, is because it's pretty clearly wrong.
Scientists, like every members of society, are bound by social rules. Some taboo cannot be broken, and when they are its a career ending move. It’s easier to get founding by inventing 126 genders that don’t exist than saying a few obvious truths, that are backed by science.
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#29I view humans in a universe like a computer program that brute-forces to find a better solution. You can have some people do everything right and nothing ever works out for them. While you can have the opposite happen. The anomalies/survivorship bias gets the most media attention and keeps the rat race going. Sometimes this makes me think the universe is just the outcome of brute-forcing as well.
Yet, a million monkeys at a million keyboards would not produce the works of Shakespeare.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The assertion you're making is a testable idea. You can check if some apparent trait is genetic or cultural by looking at children adopted by other ethnicities. They've done quite a number of studies like that, including studies on identical twins adopted by different parents, which gives you matching DNA. The reason scientists aren't saying such things, is because it's pretty clearly wrong.
Just google ashkenazi genius, jewish Nobel prize, its all over the internet. Heres a wikipedia page on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
Meaning of IQ Points
40 - 54 - Severely challenged
55 - 69 - Challenged (2.3% of test takers)
70 - 84 - Below average
85 - 114 - Average (68% of test takers)
115 - 129 - Above average
130 - 144 - Gifted (2.3% of test takers)
145 - 159 - Genius (Less than 1% of test takers)
160 - 175 - Extraordinary genius
http://www.free-iqtest.net/iq-score-guide.asp
From the wikipedia article, Ashkenazi Jews have an average IQs - a few points higher than American, Hongkong national average.