I could talk about the time Jameson Quinn spent a month or two writing up an open research question in voting theory and a commenter came in and solved it.
I do think this is overselling this a little, given that Shapley value already existed. [Like, ‘open research question’ feels to me like “the field didn’t know how to do this”, when it was more like “Jameson Quinn discounted the solution to his problem after knowing about it, and then reading a LW comment changed his mind about that.”]
I do think this is overselling this a little, given that Shapley value already existed. [Like, ‘open research question’ feels to me like “the field didn’t know how to do this”, when it was more like “Jameson Quinn discounted the solution to his problem after knowing about it, and then reading a LW comment changed his mind about that.”]
Thx, edited.