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by taneq 3 hours ago
Creativity can be thought of as a combination of two things: A random idea generator, and a nonsense filter. Generate new random results ideas, filter out the nonsense ones, and you’ve generated good ideas.
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A massive chasm exists between good, creative ideas and ideas that aren’t nonsense.
Not that massive.

A lot of good, creative ideas have been called out and derived as nonsense or crazy. Many still are.

That's why most people are not creative, and tbqh, rather dumb