Alyssa defines Creativity as "having new ideas rather than evaluating existing ones," but I would argue this definition still contains too much ambiguity. Would it be more meaningful to measure "having new ideas rather than evaluating existing ones" by the number of new ideas? Or should we put more weight on the newness—by which I mean "farthest away in idea-space from conventional ideas"—of ideas considered part of the EA movement?
If it's the latter, there seems to me a great deal of evidence that EA anchors for more creativity, not less. At the EA Summ... (read more)
Alyssa defines Creativity as "having new ideas rather than evaluating existing ones," but I would argue this definition still contains too much ambiguity. Would it be more meaningful to measure "having new ideas rather than evaluating existing ones" by the number of new ideas? Or should we put more weight on the newness—by which I mean "farthest away in idea-space from conventional ideas"—of ideas considered part of the EA movement?
If it's the latter, there seems to me a great deal of evidence that EA anchors for more creativity, not less. At the EA Summ... (read more)