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lukeprog comments on Mathematicians & mathletes: the Singularity Institute wants your strategic input! - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: lukeprog 26 January 2012 10:13PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 01 March 2012 09:50:13PM *  3 points [-]

The questions were about which properties the Singularity Institute would need to possess in order to successfully recruit young mathletes. The two most common answers were "previous technical results" and "one or two cool people already on the team." (But, for example, most people didn't care about peer review.) It seems that mathletes wanted to be able to see that these problems were tractable not just to humans but also to the Singularity Institute in particular. That sounds reasonable, of course, but self-reported motivations are often wrong, so we're in the process of gathering additional forms of data, too.