MichaelVassar comments on No One Knows Stuff - Less Wrong

7 Post author: talisman 12 May 2009 05:11AM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 12 May 2009 03:38:24PM 1 point [-]

no, we definitely don't require that, but we are a LOT more selective than, say Goldman or D.E. Shaw in other ways and we do require that you be able to function as part of a team.

Comment author: SilasBarta 12 May 2009 04:27:41PM 1 point [-]

Wow! That's tough! I don't know if I could ever be more qualified than someone who nearly shut down the entire financial system! ;-)

Comment author: orthonormal 12 May 2009 04:57:13PM 3 points [-]

Well, it generally does take geniuses to achieve something monumentally stupid. Same principle as (unintentionally) creating an Unfriendly AI: current researchers are not competent enough to pose any reasonable risk of it, but a future genius might just fail hard enough.