Ask and you shall receive.

Here is one of several emails I've now received in response to my repeated request that potential research collaborators contact me (quoted with permission):

My name is [name]. I am a first year student at [a university] majoring in pure math... I am rather intelligent; I estimate my score on the recent Putnam contest to be thirty, and the consensus is that the questions were of above average difficulty this year. I really care about the Singularity Institute's mission; I have been a utilitarian since age 11, before I knew that the idea had a name and I have cared about existential risk since at least age twelve, when I wrote a short piece on why prevention of the heat death was the greatest moral imperative for humankind (I had come up with the idea of what was essentially a Brownian ratchet years before I read the proof of the H-theorem showing the irreversible increase in entropy).

I want to help with the theory of friendly AI. I currently think that I could work directly on the problem but if my comparative advantage is elsewhere I would like to know that... I would be interested in participating in a rationality camp, the Visiting fellows program or anything else that could help the Singularity Institute.

Keep 'em coming, people!