Datumline methods

Domain Expansion

dissect an idea to its root, import another field's theory, keep what survives

The problem

Most "creative" prompting asks a model for analogies and gets surface ones: same nouns, different industry. The useful move is deeper. Strip the idea to a mechanism that is no longer about your domain, find fields that have already worked that mechanism out, import their predictions, and then check each one against what you actually know before believing it.

What it is

Take an idea down to its root mechanism, find where else that mechanism has been studied, borrow that field's theory, and keep only what survives your own facts.

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