Lumifer comments on Open thread, Sept. 1-7, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion
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First, Paul Graham's idea of "anyone reasonably smart" probably involves not more that the top 5% of the population and likely even less X-)
Second, while it's not hard to get to the "edge", it's less trivial to do something useful while being there -- such as advancing that edge.