Iterative tinkering enhances effective IQ
With rational trial and error, you don’t need to be very smart. Experimenting via tinkering can yield strong solutions to problems, even in areas where you are unskilled or that are extremely opaque, impenetrable to logic or analysis.
One could think of machine learning as an example of this. Even a highly performant model is “dumb” in some fundamental way, yet it can do amazing things as a result of many iterations of trial and error. By throwing more training data at the problem (aka Just do more), one can improve a model substantially without any idea of how it works or what the optimal solution looks like a priori.
References
Sasha Chapin – Awaken the Writer Within
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