Except that EY doesn’t spend all his time (or even most of his time, I don’t know) trying to solve impossible problems. He also blogs and helps organize conferences and stuff, right? All those other activities act as a hedge against him not accomplishing anything in FAI. Its not such a big deal to work on a problem that you never actually solve if your real career is as a writer/speaker and talking about the fact that you are working on this impossible problem is useful for that career.
Except that EY doesn’t spend all his time (or even most of his time, I don’t know) trying to solve impossible problems. He also blogs and helps organize conferences and stuff, right? All those other activities act as a hedge against him not accomplishing anything in FAI. Its not such a big deal to work on a problem that you never actually solve if your real career is as a writer/speaker and talking about the fact that you are working on this impossible problem is useful for that career.
Michael Vassar and others organize the Summit.
Yeah, when the Summit was first proposed in 06, I said, “This can only happen if you make absolutely sure that I never have to do any work on them.”