On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 2:10 PM, John Grigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
And I noticed he did "friendly AI research" with<br>
a grad student, and not a fully credentialed academic or researcher.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Marcello Herreshoff is brilliant for any age. Like some other of our Fellows, he has been a top-scorer in the Putnam competition. He's been a finalist in the USA Computing Olympiad twice. He lives and breathes mathematics -- which makes sense because his dad is a math teacher at Palo Alto High School. Because Friendly AI demands so many different skills, it makes sense for people to custom-craft their careers from the start to address its topics. That way, in 2020, we will have people have been working on Friendly AI for 10-15 years solid rather than people who have been flitting in and out of Friendly AI and conventional AI.</div>
</div><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:michael.anissimov@singinst.org" target="_blank">michael.anissimov@singinst.org</a><br><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><div>Singularity Institute<br>
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