Result of saying we need "hero strategists"? I'm inundated with people who say they can contribute to singularity strategy after thinking about the issues for one month and reading less than 100 pages on the subject. SI staff wastes valuable time trying to steer amateur strategists along more valuable paths before giving up due to low ROI.

But to tell whether someone can be a useful strategist they need to read 500 pages of material and spend months chatting regularly with SI and/or FHI, and that's very costly for both them and for SI+FHI.

You could direct them to LW and let them prove their mettle here?