如何获得新想法
如何获得新想法
2023年1月
（有人将我的文章输入GPT制作了一个可以基于它们回答问题的东西，然后问它好想法从哪里来。答案还可以，但不是我会说的。这是我会说的。）
获得新想法的方法是注意异常：什么看起来奇怪，或缺失，或坏了？你可以在日常生活中看到异常（很多单口喜剧都是基于这个），但寻找它们的最佳地方是在知识的前沿。
知识分形增长。从远处看，它的边缘看起来很平滑，但当你学到足够接近其中一个时，你会注意到它充满了空白。这些空白看起来很明显；似乎无法解释没有人尝试过x或对y感到好奇。在最好的情况下，探索这样的空白会产生全新的分形芽。
How to Get New Ideas
January 2023
(Someone fed my essays into GPT to make something that could answer questions based on them, then asked it where good ideas come from. The answer was ok, but not what I would have said. This is what I would have said.)
The way to get new ideas is to notice anomalies: what seems strange, or missing, or broken? You can see anomalies in everyday life (much of standup comedy is based on this), but the best place to look for them is at the frontiers of knowledge.
Knowledge grows fractally. From a distance its edges look smooth, but when you learn enough to get close to one, you’ll notice it’s full of gaps. These gaps will seem obvious; it will seem inexplicable that no one has tried x or wondered about y. In the best case, exploring such gaps yields whole new fractal buds.