“So I’m taking the time to write out full explanations, and the basics, and will eventually produce a book, and teenagers will read the book, go on to read other books, and then be hired by SIAI 7 years later.”
I would certainly enjoy reading your book, and I’m confident that thousands of other people would enjoy it as well. However, I’m not confident that a book on rationality alone will do much for recruiting- Hofstadter’s GEB was well-written and very widely read, and it didn’t help recruit people for any specific organization.
“I’m just explaining why it is that I won’t tell anyone the Secret of how the ineffable difference between blueness and redness arises from mere atoms for less than $100,000 -”
I’ll give you $100 for a reasonably detailed explanation of this, as long as you publish it under the GFDL or a similar license.
“So I’m taking the time to write out full explanations, and the basics, and will eventually produce a book, and teenagers will read the book, go on to read other books, and then be hired by SIAI 7 years later.”
I would certainly enjoy reading your book, and I’m confident that thousands of other people would enjoy it as well. However, I’m not confident that a book on rationality alone will do much for recruiting- Hofstadter’s GEB was well-written and very widely read, and it didn’t help recruit people for any specific organization.
“I’m just explaining why it is that I won’t tell anyone the Secret of how the ineffable difference between blueness and redness arises from mere atoms for less than $100,000 -”
I’ll give you $100 for a reasonably detailed explanation of this, as long as you publish it under the GFDL or a similar license.