“Creativity” implies generation. And yet, does the proper definition of it emphasize generation? Scott Adams has said that creativity is the ability to purge compelling, half functional ideas from one’s mind, basically holding off on proposing solutions.
The strength of intelligence, and humanity, is improvising where hard-coded adaptations would be inferior.
I’m not willing to say that the problem in such a case was the absence of a specific, narrow heuristic rather than a lack of creativity. Creativity is getting by when narrow heuristics fail, and not cutting corners by assuming too much.
However unlikely it is in a specific case that the specific usually-valid heuristic “they are not trying to deceive you” fails, this was not a one-off case because there are a great number of usually-valid heuristics, each of which will rarely fail, but at least one of which will fail somewhat often, such that somewhat often a person with low creativity will fail.
“Creativity” implies generation. And yet, does the proper definition of it emphasize generation? Scott Adams has said that creativity is the ability to purge compelling, half functional ideas from one’s mind, basically holding off on proposing solutions.
The strength of intelligence, and humanity, is improvising where hard-coded adaptations would be inferior.
I’m not willing to say that the problem in such a case was the absence of a specific, narrow heuristic rather than a lack of creativity. Creativity is getting by when narrow heuristics fail, and not cutting corners by assuming too much.
However unlikely it is in a specific case that the specific usually-valid heuristic “they are not trying to deceive you” fails, this was not a one-off case because there are a great number of usually-valid heuristics, each of which will rarely fail, but at least one of which will fail somewhat often, such that somewhat often a person with low creativity will fail.