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rachellouise
27 / F / straight / Seeing someone
Chicago, Illinois
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Which would you rather have more of?
Which would you rather have more of?
- Imagination
- Knowledge
Aack! I don't know! If I had more imagination, I could come up with creative solutions to things, and prove exciting theorems. But if I had more knowledge, I could sort it out and prove other exciting theorems! And if I had more knowledge, it would be easy to do homework and pass tests. But if I had more imagination, it might actually be more enjoyable to do those things because I would be coming up with more interesting answers. I just don't know!
(I posted this mainly just to try out the journal thing. My post wasn't especially interesting.)
Your post reminds me of Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse from
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephensen in which he constructs a happiness
function for himself that involves proving theorems and one other
factor. He is quite disturbed to discover a third factor entering
the equation towards the middle of the book.
Omnifarious commented on
So, did you ever answer the question? I'm pretty sure I skipped
that one for a lot of the reasons that you mentioned. It's just too
hard to tell and my opinion would certainly change from situation
to situation.
A former user commented on
Actually I was more interested in finding out what the difference
is between "Trekkies" and "Trekkers".
You mean, you don't know either?!
YahooToYouToo commented on
I like to think of such questions as 3d surfaces. Some third
quality--"usefulness" say--make it a function of the two options...
Then the question becomes -- Which component of the gradient is
larger? At least for "small changes" in the current "region".
For small changes..I think I would go with imagination. A little bit more knowledge seems rather static compared to a little bit more imagination. A little bit of more imagination likely has a compounding effect on "usefulness".
For large and infinite changes I think I would go with knowledge. Knowing everything would be pretty interesting. But infinite imagination? What is that? -Poorly defined. In many ways imagination is always infinite...you can make up anything you want without impedance. So the question could be moot.
cave_person commented on
there is always "all of the above"
A former user commented on
Yeah, well, I'm just commenting in your journal to bring up my
Profile Completion level. I'm going to see if I can bring it above
90% today without writing a damn test. If I do write a test, I'll
probably call it the How Much Do You Hate OkCupid Tests test.
pseudonym82 commented on
Dilemmas, dilemmas... :)
SmilingSadist commented on
This is like asking would you rather have more motivation or
ambition.
A former user commented on
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