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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Jul 2019
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    I sometimes think interestingness and importance of problems are inversely related Interestingness = k/importance

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      1. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 8 Jul 2019
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        Interesting to who? If interesting to too many people, it's an inverse signal - truly interesting problems which are *that* accessible tend to get solved quickly. But interesting to a select group of themselves-interesting people, that's different.

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      1. Mike Elias  💡 📈‏ @harmonylion1 7 Jul 2019
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        Maybe low interestingness is a way problems defend themselves from being solved. (I’m pretty sure ideas have a survival instinct)

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      1. Josh Whitkin‏ @joshwhitkin 8 Jul 2019
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        The best jobs are at the most boring sounding companies.

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      1. David McDougall‏ @dmcdougall 7 Jul 2019
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        Any problem whose interestingness is sufficiently obvious has been deeply investigated before the importance has been made legible I'm not sure if this is an alternate idea or a corollary, but: It's only by investigating interesting problems that we understand their importance.

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      2. Abhijeet Mukherjee‏Verified account @abhijeetmk 7 Jul 2019
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        Depends on the frame of reference. The problems non-scientists consider important are usually tackled by motivated scientists because of their interestingness to them.

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        And vice versus — most scientists won’t touch psychic phenomena or UFOs despite their being some of the most intensely interesting, potentially revolutionary subjects out there.

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      1. Sean‏ @Ratic16 7 Jul 2019
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        Is this about aggregation of uniqueness?

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      1. Vivek Thyagarajan‏ @vivekt17 7 Jul 2019
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        Very possible! I.e. do the boring stuff you hate first and save the interesting stuff as a reward for later as it’s almost always not as important Aka, eat your vegetables first and then you can maybe have the candy Unrelated: Just heard my mom yelling at me in my head

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        If you want to compete with the most creative, driven techies in the universe, try to get a job in video games. Cuz games are interesting to build.

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