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108 Post author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 01:28AM

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Comment author: MixedNuts 14 January 2012 01:34:20AM 6 points [-]

Now that I'm Executive Director I don't have much time to bang my head on hard (research) problems

That strikes me as an extremely wrong way to allocate human resources. Good executive directors can't be rarer than good FAI researchers.

Comment author: lukeprog 14 January 2012 05:07:10AM 11 points [-]

I wouldn't say I'm a good FAI researcher. I'm just very quick at writing up the kind of "platform papers" that summarize the problem space, connect things to the existing literature, show other researchers what they can work on, explain the basic arguments. For example.