Willa manages to be surprised that she gets to ask the question herself; she'd kind of been assuming her questions would go to someone else if they somehow managed to be good. In hindsight, that would probably create bad colors on The Wall, which is something she should've thought of to begin with.

"What if we used auguries to help select our experiments? We would think of two plausible experiments to do every time we would have done one, and then cast augury to pick which."

She's getting pretty excited now her words start speeding up. "It wouldn't always select the more useful one, but it would more often than not! So the data we'd get would probably end up being more useful! We could make progress faster, and we could even try slightly riskier, costlier experiments, since the worst failures would usually be filtered out by the auguries!"

Willa manages to be surprised that she gets to ask the question herself; she'd kind of been assuming her questions would go to someone else if they somehow managed to be good. In hindsight, that would probably create bad colors on The Wall, which is something she should've thought of to begin with.

"What if we used auguries to help select our experiments? We would think of two plausible experiments to do every time we would have done one, and then cast augury to pick which."

She's getting pretty excited now and her words start speeding up. "It wouldn't always select the more useful one, but it would more often than not! So the data we'd get would probably end up being more useful! We could make progress faster, and we could even try slightly riskier, costlier experiments, since the worst failures would usually be filtered out by the auguries!"