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Comment author: [deleted] 22 May 2012 06:36:12AM *  6 points [-]

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 May 2012 08:12:15AM 4 points [-]

I was thinking about this during the Falcon 9/Dragon launch, and the lowest-hanging fruit in PDEs probably involves systematizing the wealth of inequalities and quantitative results regarding solutions of PDEs. It probably wouldn't be very flashy, though -- there are a lot of extremely technical results that are only well-understood by a handful of people.

There was an attempt headed by Tao (of course) and others, called DispersiveWiki, but it fell to a spam attack a couple months ago. I'm not sure if it's been rebooted.

Comment author: komponisto 23 May 2012 04:37:44AM 2 points [-]

There was an attempt headed by Tao (of course) and others, called DispersiveWiki, but it fell to a spam attack a couple months ago. I'm not sure if it's been rebooted

It seems to be working at the moment..

I think the wiki format would be very useful for work of this kind; and I agree that systematizing PDE results seems a promising approach.

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