Consequentialist — LessWrong
Though it does take a mature understanding to appreciate this impossibility, so it's not surprising that people go around proposing clever shortcuts. "Shut up and do the impossible" isn't the same as expecting to find a cheap way out. The Wright Brothers obviously proposed a clever shortcut - more clever than the other, failed shortcuts - a cheap way out, that ended the "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" era. You need your fundamental breakthrough - the moment you can think, like the guys probably thought, "I'm pretty ... (read more) By being maximally tuned to the problem, I mean that you have maximized your knowledge about the domain (you know the dead-ends) and your techniques and methods are sufficient in number and capability (your know all the tricks and have created some of your own); you lack nothing and can simply flow. Extraordinary results require extraordinary effort? Not necessarily. You may achieve extraordinary results, effortlessly like water flowing arou