Lots of good stuff happened there, but it looks like it’ll have to be curated fairly actively to continue to make progress, and unfortunately that doesn’t fit with my current duties.
If someone else would like to act as a leader for it, I’d be happy for that! In any case, I’m glad we tried it, and thankful that so many people jumped in.
If I recall correctly, most successful polymath projects did in fact have active leaders, such as Timothy Gowers and Terence Tao, who helped to direct the efforts of others. Maybe without such active leadership a project tends to lose its focus. However, I myself do not have sufficient knowledge to take up such task as I do not think I am familiar enough with the research in this area (and at the moment I do not have much time to deeply familiarize myself with it). Nevertheless, thank you for creating that thread. This is precisely the type of threads I would love to see more of on LessWrong.
Lots of good stuff happened there, but it looks like it’ll have to be curated fairly actively to continue to make progress, and unfortunately that doesn’t fit with my current duties.
If someone else would like to act as a leader for it, I’d be happy for that! In any case, I’m glad we tried it, and thankful that so many people jumped in.
If I recall correctly, most successful polymath projects did in fact have active leaders, such as Timothy Gowers and Terence Tao, who helped to direct the efforts of others. Maybe without such active leadership a project tends to lose its focus. However, I myself do not have sufficient knowledge to take up such task as I do not think I am familiar enough with the research in this area (and at the moment I do not have much time to deeply familiarize myself with it). Nevertheless, thank you for creating that thread. This is precisely the type of threads I would love to see more of on LessWrong.