That is, I would like to see a subcommunity of LW devoted to researching mathematical and scientific problems independently of the current formal academic structure. Indeed, this already exists for decision theory; I would like to see it extended to other mathematical topics as well.
That would be really nice. There have been some attempts, but all previous attempts (that I'm aware of) have more or less failed.
I would even like to do this project.
I'm far less optimistic about this.
So who's interested in building a rationalist subcommunity for mathematical and scientific research? Zack Davis? Any of the decision theory people? Does anyone else feel as I do?
I would be interested, and I feel this way.
Could someone find us some problems to work on that require relatively little advanced mathematics vocabulary to understand?
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