One objection I can conceive of why they’re not doing this is that most fields medalists probably already have standing offers from places like Jane Street, and aren’t taking them because they prefer academia. But if that were the case, and they’d already tried, that just tells me that MIRI might be really bad at recruiting. There has to be a dozen different reasons someone who wouldn’t work at Jane Street would still be willing to do legitimate maths research, for the same amount of money as they’d get in finance, to save the damn world.
I’m pretty sure MIRI has on the order of ten billion dollars at it’s disposal. If this is the case, then they can outbid Jane Street. In fact, trying to snipe Jane Street engineers isn’t a bad recruitment strategy, as a lot of the filtering has already been done for you.
One objection I can conceive of why they’re not doing this is that most fields medalists probably already have standing offers from places like Jane Street, and aren’t taking them because they prefer academia. But if that were the case, and they’d already tried, that just tells me that MIRI might be really bad at recruiting. There has to be a dozen different reasons someone who wouldn’t work at Jane Street would still be willing to do legitimate maths research, for the same amount of money as they’d get in finance, to save the damn world.
I’m pretty sure MIRI has on the order of ten billion dollars at it’s disposal.If this is the case, then they can outbid Jane Street. In fact, trying to snipe Jane Street engineers isn’t a bad recruitment strategy, as a lot of the filtering has already been done for you.We don’t have 10 billion dollars.
So you are funding-constrained.
SBF/FTX does though.