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8 Post author: NancyLebovitz 25 January 2014 02:52PM

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 25 January 2014 11:06:50PM *  19 points [-]

Has anyone toyed around with the idea of sending him off to get a math degree somewhere?

I think the bigger issue w/ people not taking EY seriously is he does not communicate (e.g. publish peer reviewed papers). Facebook stream of consciousness does not count. Conditional on great papers, credentials don't mean that much (otherwise people would never move up the academic status chain).

Yes it is too bad that writing things down clearly takes a long time.

Comment author: iconreforged 25 January 2014 11:45:29PM 3 points [-]

True. It seems like the great-papers avenue is being pursued full-steam these days with MIRI, but I wonder if they're going to run out of low-hanging fruit to publish, or if mainstream academia is going to drag their heels replying to them.