= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
JonahSinick comments on Mathematicians and the Prevention of Recessions - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (131)
As I said, these are very preliminary thoughts. I don't yet have access to such data, and would welcome pointers to possible sources.
Actually, as soon as I posted this I thought about how MIRI does exactly this! But this is just one group, and we would need more data.
There's no problem with suggesting a hypothesis based on a limited data set, but that's not how the post reads. It sounds like it is making a definitive claim, but does not present the evidence to back this up.
Of course, much of what MIRI hires mathematicians for is to do mathematics research.
There's a disclaimer at the beginning :-).
Note that I wrote "Mathematicians who are motivated to learn these skills are well positioned to do so," which is a weaker claim than that mathematicians are known to have highly transferable skills. I'm fairly confident that what I said is true in most cases, but this is based on a lot of tacit knowledge, which is difficult to externalize.