JonahSinick comments on Mathematicians and the Prevention of Recessions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JonahSinick 25 May 2013 01:08:17AM 1 point [-]

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.