Aside from the fact that I just find this idea extremely hilarious, it seems like a very good idea to me to try to convince people who might be able to make progress on the problem to try. Whether literally sending Terry Tao 10 million dollars is the best way to go about that seems dubious, but the general strategy seems important.
I’d argue the sequences / HPMOR / whatever were versions of that strategy to some extent and seem to have had notable impact.
Aside from the fact that I just find this idea extremely hilarious, it seems like a very good idea to me to try to convince people who might be able to make progress on the problem to try. Whether literally sending Terry Tao 10 million dollars is the best way to go about that seems dubious, but the general strategy seems important.
I’d argue the sequences / HPMOR / whatever were versions of that strategy to some extent and seem to have had notable impact.