army1987 comments on Common sense as a prior - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Nick_Beckstead 11 August 2013 06:18PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (212)

Sort By: Best

Show:

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2013 10:05:29AM 0 points [-]

I'll also say that I think that there are very few such people — maybe on the order of 10 who are alive today.

Not to mention that some of them might be working on Wall Street or something, and not have worked on unsolved problems in mathematics in decades.