Finding Seed AI Candidates
From The Transhumanist Wiki
Emil Gilliam's comments on how to recognize Seed AI programmer candidates:
- Well, I look for people who are already pretty much on the path to Bayesianity, though they may not know that it's called that ...
- And who have a certain amount of enthusiasm and energy, which I know will be needed when push comes to shove ...
- ... and who are at home with the idea that *everything* in the universe is, in fact, math
- 4.0 GPA students aren't necessarily the type I'm looking for, though smartness is in fact a prerequisite for being a Seed AI programmer.
- There's a *lot* of grade grinds out there who don't care one whit about the philosophical or the larger issues.
- Of course, if I get even to the point that I'm interviewing somebody as a possible candidate, it's likely that they're not just a grade grind.
