Discussion at /ritar-blu3mo
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This is a tool used when one needs numerous responses of around 140 characters each to an open-ended question or prompt.
- It is used when one wants to come up with many specific examples of something.
- It is used when one wants to brainstorm various approaches to a problem.
- It is used when one wants to generate a lot of ideas.
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It is seen as an activity to expand the space of ideas.
- By creating various vectors, the dimensions of the space expand.
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It can also be seen as exploring the space of possibilities.
- Analogies can be drawn to techniques like breadth-first search, depth-first search, and pruning.
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Desired controls include:
- Promotion
- “This direction seems interesting, so dig deeper.”
- Pruning
- “This direction doesn’t seem very promising, so let’s not explore it further.”
- Transformation
- “Explore a direction different from existing ones.”
- To encourage diverse ideas, after presenting existing responses, encourage coming up with something different.
- “Explore a direction different from existing ones.”
- Other additional instructions
- Promotion
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While providing responses, should they be structured into a tree-like hierarchy?
- It would lean more towards being a dag (directed acyclic graph).
- Initially setting aside control, the aim is to generate numerous ideas by extending the dag with an algorithm.