I think it would be a mistake to infer someone’s attitude toward low-stakes brainstorming from their public communications.
Most people wear their hearts on their sleeve to a greater degree than they might realize. Public conservatism of discourse seems a pretty reasonable proxy measure of private conservatism of discourse in most cases. As I mentioned, I am very happy to hear evidence this is not the case for openPhil.
I do not think the model of creativity as a deliberate, trainable set of practices is widely known, so I go out of my way to bring it up WRT projects that are important.
Most people wear their hearts on their sleeve to a greater degree than they might realize. Public conservatism of discourse seems a pretty reasonable proxy measure of private conservatism of discourse in most cases. As I mentioned, I am very happy to hear evidence this is not the case for openPhil.
I do not think the model of creativity as a deliberate, trainable set of practices is widely known, so I go out of my way to bring it up WRT projects that are important.