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From: Joichi Ito < Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:28 AM To: Barnaby Marsh Cc: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: "Genius" finding I think the brute force way of getting the interesting "attractors=E2 labs like George's to give us a list of the people who =hey think would fit this model. The problem is, and I'm working on this at MIT, most researchers =nd post docs are sort of "undocumented immigrants" that =e don't normally track... - Joi > On Feb 18, 2015, at 9:23 PM, Barnaby Marsh < :;* =rote: > On the right track- like the bayesian method. I think that the =nvironment matters a lot too- the people that we look for aggregate in =laces like Cambridge, where they can be with others who they can =esonate with. My guess is that many times they might not have formal =ositions, but are visitors to labs, research groups, etc. Is there any =ay to get lists of such people??? > From: Joichi Ito ca> > Date: Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 8:10 AM > To: B Marsh <I >, Jeffrey Epstein > [email protected]> > Subject: Fwd: "Genius" finding > Sent from my iPhone > Begin forwarded message: » From: Scott Page <: I> » Date: Februa 14, 2015 at 07:16:47 EST » To: Joichi Ito » Subject: "Genius" finding » Jo', » I've been thinking about your question of how to identify amazing =eople. » Here are several thoughts that don't necessarily cohere. >> » I think your approach has to depend partly on the goal. The =lgorithm I would construct to find the next great artist would differ =rom one to find a teacher, mathematician, cancer researcher, brain =cientist, etc... If you're totally wide open as to subject area, then =t seems to me you want to cast a wide net. » I would be tempted to try the Bayesian Truth Serum and ask something EFTA_R1_01643110 EFTA02511099 » =ike Pick a really smart friend, who would that person say should win a =enius award. » Rather than try to identify people, you might instead seek out =apers/projects/programs/ideas and then identify the person after the =act. » You might want to consider asking people for the "coolest thing they » =now that's NOT on the web (yet) » So much filtering and assessment already goes on that most programs =ree ride on that -- giving award to people who have already won awards. = This suggests that one place to look is at the "losers" - contact =acArthur, NIH, NSF, DARPA, GOOGLE, and ask who do you regret not =unding? » Once you've got a long list of possibilities you have many options. =ere are some you may not have considered » You could also pay people on mechanical turk to write up little =lurbs on each one and then seed them on Facebook, Twitter, etc.. and =hen only look at the ones that get retweeted. You could use Matt Salganik's pairwise comparison website. » hope this helps. Happy to think more. » scotte » -- » Scott E Page » University of Michigan-Ann Arbor » Santa Fe Institute <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <IDOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-id</key> <integer>124627</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1424312860</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>482952</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01643111 EFTA02511100