I think perhaps the problem is that we aren’t aware of all the little subfields that are useful and interesting. For example, I know of people working on posts that cover the literature on ‘brainstorming’ and ‘learning how to solve physics problems’. Both of these sound really interesting and quite useful, but I don’t want to make a prize about these since people are already working on them.
Conscientiousness sounds like it might be a good topic.
Very interesting. I am especially interested in this because I have recently acquired some artificial conscientiousness via habitual use of task lists.
I think perhaps the problem is that we aren’t aware of all the little subfields that are useful and interesting. For example, I know of people working on posts that cover the literature on ‘brainstorming’ and ‘learning how to solve physics problems’. Both of these sound really interesting and quite useful, but I don’t want to make a prize about these since people are already working on them.
Conscientiousness sounds like it might be a good topic.
A new citation I’ve worked in, the Terman study (only very intelligent children were used) discussed in http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2011/04/earnings-effects-of-personality.html—eyeballing it, going from 10th to 90th in Conscientiousness was worth $800,000 over a lifetime. More than a similar jump in IQ.
Very interesting. I am especially interested in this because I have recently acquired some artificial conscientiousness via habitual use of task lists.