Before resorting to ‘large financial prizes’, shouldn’t level 1 include ‘formalize open problems and publicise them’?
The trouble is, ‘formalizing open problems’ seems like by far the toughest part here, and it would thus be nice if we could employ collaborative problem-solving to somehow crack this part of the problem… by formalizing how to formalize various confusing FAI-related subproblems and throwing this on MathOverflow? :) Actually, I think LW is more appropriate environment for at least attempting this endeavor, since it is, after all, what a large part of Eliezer’s sequences tried to prepare us for...
The trouble is, ‘formalizing open problems’ seems like by far the toughest part here, and it would thus be nice if we could employ collaborative problem-solving to somehow crack this part of the problem… by formalizing how to formalize various confusing FAI-related subproblems and throwing this on MathOverflow? :) Actually, I think LW is more appropriate environment for at least attempting this endeavor, since it is, after all, what a large part of Eliezer’s sequences tried to prepare us for...