It seems useful to flag when and where Lesswrong work has academic parallels or antecedents, and while doing a peer review, I realized there is a connection to Campbell’s 1960 paper, “Blind variation and selective retentions in creative thought as in other knowledge processes,” especially as extended by Simonton. Obviously, this isn’t a direct link or a source, but it seems to be a useful parallel construction of a related idea.
See: Simonton, D. K. (2011). Creativity and discovery as blind variation: C”ampbell’s (1960) BVSR model after the half-century mark.” Review of General Psychology, 15(2), 158–174. doi:10.1037/a0022912
It seems useful to flag when and where Lesswrong work has academic parallels or antecedents, and while doing a peer review, I realized there is a connection to Campbell’s 1960 paper, “Blind variation and selective retentions in creative thought as in other knowledge processes,” especially as extended by Simonton. Obviously, this isn’t a direct link or a source, but it seems to be a useful parallel construction of a related idea.
See: Simonton, D. K. (2011). Creativity and discovery as blind variation: C”ampbell’s (1960) BVSR model after the half-century mark.” Review of General Psychology, 15(2), 158–174. doi:10.1037/a0022912