[extropy-chat] GOOGLE: innovative recruiting technique

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> While they surely wanted to increase their signal to
> noise ratio, I'm
> also wondering if they wanted to advertise the use
> of google for such
> filtering, or wanted people to use google to dig up
> the answers... I
> suppose there is something to be said for not
> reinventing the wheel.

I think googling for the answer would be "cheating",
in terms of their original problem.  OTOH, it is the
type of non-standard-yet-more-effective thinking they
claim to be looking for - at least, at first.  Now
that the problem's been around long enough that people
can be advised to google for the answer...well, that
kind of defeats this class of problem.  (Even if they
come up with new problems, the strategy of waiting
for others to post the answer - whether or not Google
says not to post the answer - remains valid and
possibly well-known, not requiring original thinking
to conceive of.)