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My view is that if you take someone with philosophical talents and interests (presumably inherited or caused by the environment in a hard-to-control manner) , you can make a better philosopher out of them by having them study more math and science than the typical education for a philosopher. But if you take someone with little philosophical talent and interest and do the same, they'll just become mathematicians and scientists.
I think this is probably similar to the views of SIAI people, and your quote doesn't contradict my understanding.
Do you have ideas about how to find philosophical talent, especially the kind relevant for Friendliness philosophy? I don't think SingInst folk have worked very thoroughly on the problem, but someone might have. Geoff Anders has spent a lot of time thinking about the problem and he runs summer programs teaching philosophy. Dunno how much progress he's made. (Um, for whatever it's worth, he seems to think I have philosophical aptitude—modus ponens or modus tollens, take your pick.)