I think that there's something to either one or both of your arguments, and that there are lots of further arguments:
3) The "candle experiment" applies only to medium-scale creative tasks
4) The "candle experiment" is one of a small class of lateral thinking problems for which monetary reward is negatively correlated with success
5) The "candle experiment" result only holds on tasks that last a short time
My question is, which hold, what's your evidence, and what experiments should be done next? I can think of a bunch, so if anybody wants to fund some research, let me know :)
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I think that there's something to either one or both of your arguments, and that there are lots of further arguments:
3) The "candle experiment" applies only to medium-scale creative tasks
4) The "candle experiment" is one of a small class of lateral thinking problems for which monetary reward is negatively correlated with success
5) The "candle experiment" result only holds on tasks that last a short time
My question is, which hold, what's your evidence, and what experiments should be done next? I can think of a bunch, so if anybody wants to fund some research, let me know :)