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FWIW, I disagree with bbarth's assessment of your prospects. SIAI seems to do good things to bright folks like yourself, and I think you'd both benefit from the arrangement.
It's not a question of SIAI not being good enough for Yvain, it's a question of whether they might both do even better if he pursues something else. It clearly sounds like he's pursing a different path than joining SIAI now, so he must have done at least some of the math. He's in med school according to his webpage, so I suspect his prospects for helping the cause might be higher if he does well as a doctor and sends every dime he doesn't need (say his salary as a doctor less $36k/yr) to SIAI. It certainly seems like it might be a waste of his current efforts to drop his medical aspirations and become a curriculum producer at SIAI, but I might be suffering from a form of the Sunk Cost Fallacy here.
Thanks to the magic of guilds, all new trainee doctor jobs in the US start on July 1st*. If I don't get a job by then, I will probably have to wait until next July and find something to occupy me and provide me with money for a year. Hence my comment that I would be interested if my job search fell flat.
Even though it doesn't look like it sometimes, I do give at least five minutes thought to most of my major life decisions.
*which is why some people have very reasonably argued that you should avoid hospitals at that time of year.
Ooh, my wife was just talking about a large study that apparently did not support this claim (using administrative data, I think). I'll find out the title when she wakes up and post a link.