Larks comments on Best career models for doing research? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 07 December 2010 05:32:11PM *  9 points [-]

Another idea is the "Bostrom Solution", i.e. be so brilliant that you can find a rich guy to just pay for you to have your own institute at Oxford University.

Then there's the "Reverse Bostrom Solution": realize that you aren't Bostrom-level brilliant, but that you could accrue enough money to pay for an institute for somebody else who is even smarter and would work on what you would have worked on. (FHI costs $400k/year, which isn't such a huge amount as to be unattainable by Kaj or a few Kaj-like entities collaborating)

Comment author: Larks 07 December 2010 05:45:35PM 1 point [-]

Unfortunately, FHI seems to have filled the vacancies it advertised earlier this month.

Comment author: Alexandros 07 December 2010 08:09:00PM 1 point [-]

Are you talking about these? (http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/news/2010/vacancies) This seems odd, the deadline for applications is on Jan 12th.

Comment author: Larks 08 December 2010 08:57:55PM 0 points [-]

Oh yes - strange, I swear it said no vacancies...

Comment author: FormallyknownasRoko 07 December 2010 05:47:23PM 0 points [-]

Sure, so this favors the "Create a new James Martin" strategy.