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the idea is sound, however this is bungling together as requirements good at programming + good at markets I'm just wondering if and why those kind of people r

• kasey_junk 11y ago
  I think the recruiting thesis is that all manner of folks might meet that category, but a) they don't know it b) those looking for them can't find them.
• kbenson 11y ago
  Instead of "good at markets", I interpreted it as "good at understanding complex systems". I never assumed the companies they would contact would be entirely financially based, I think the idea is that if someone can figure this out the should essentially be vetted (after a good in-person meeting) as a good candidate for almost any project you want to throw at them. To me, the stock-market aspect of this seems entirely because it's a large, complex, distributed system that's not entirely theoretical (i.e. has been real-world tested), can be modeled accurately enough in the game, and is complex enough to provide for some real challenging problems. There are likely quite a few candidates that could have been used instead of the stock market, but the stock market might be the ideal one in this case.