Andrew_Clough comments on The Crackpot Offer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Andrew_Clough 08 September 2007 10:29:03PM 9 points [-]

I expect that many people who grew up to be scientists and mathematicians attempted to create famous proofs when they were young, but I also expect that for many engineers such as myself our youthful folly went more along the direction of perpetual motion machines. I'd actually like to see some research on what the correlations really are.