My supervillain origin story — LessWrong
When I started graduate school (for math), I was very interested in big ideas. I had had a couple experiences of having general research intuitions p…
x My supervillain origin story — LessWrong Rationality Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 7 % 123 My supervillain origin story by Dmitry Vaintrob 27th Jan 2025 6 min read 4 123 When I started graduate school (for math), I was very interested in big ideas. I had had a couple experiences of having general research intuitions pan out really well and felt like the core of good research is having a brave idea, a gestalt . I went into grad school looking for the “gestalt people”. The people whose math had that mysterious, cutting edge flavor but was not too pop (at the time the sexiest thing around was highe
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