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Epistemic status: Exploratory thinking.After attending ILIAD: Aeneid and talking with @Richard_Ngo, I've been thinking a bit about how to get ideas, particularly by doing mathematics.In scientific inquiry, the true hypothesis often hasn't occurred to you yet. Worse, the truth might be too complex to hold in mind, so th