My thoughts when someone asked me what I think about this on IRC: <drethelin> eh

<drethelin> probably a fine idea

<drethelin> I think a more cost effective plan would be to create a summary with links to lesswrong, introductions to probability theory, and maybe some stuff from GTD and how to make friends and influence people

<drethelin> and then email/heavily advertise it to high school chess clubs

<drethelin> like you said, a more generic thing can have a lot more impact per investment

<drethelin> so framing the value as being in the mentoring seems incorrect

<drethelin> I would expect very smart people exposed to the right ideas to come out about as well as very smart people who are exposed to and mentored in the right ideas

<drethelin> especially considering the very short term scale of your mentoring

<drethelin> nothing like Aristotle