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Comment author: Curiouskid 26 November 2011 03:52:45PM *  8 points [-]
  1. 17- Junior/Senior (third year of school. Have enough credits to graduate this year) (Trying to decide if I want to graduate early)
  2. I've been going to the library and maxing out the number of books I can check out. More recently, I've joined LW.
  3. Family = none. School = some people who are semi-philosophical but not very LW rational.
  4. I've always thought it was more important to know what I want to do rather than where I want to go. That said, I'm either going to try to directly contribute bringing about the singularity by research or help by donating (and maybe trying to reform education).
  5. You betcha! I can apply for three years and that's what I'll do until I get in.
  6. This seems so long ago
Comment author: nebulous 26 November 2011 10:03:28PM 2 points [-]

From the Thiel Fellowship website: "The ideal candidate has ideas that simply cannot wait. She or he wants to change the world and has already started to do it in some fashion. We want fellows who dream big and have clear plans [...]" I'm interested in what you have in mind for your Thiel grant--some singularity-promoting project? Have you already done some work in that direction?

Comment author: Curiouskid 27 November 2011 01:25:00AM 0 points [-]

I have a lot of ideas. Mainly education reform and media curation and community building, but also some ideas for the application of environmental technologies. But, currently lack business knowledge. Working on that right now (I'm reading the Personal MBA and Getting Things Done. 4 steps to epiphany is on my list. I'm hoping that if I got the scholarship, I would be directed to mentors and resources that would help me pick up the business information I lack). I will be making a post soon about my ideas in more depth shortly. They will be imbedded within one of those "how can I help?" style posts.

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