Accelerating Future Resume Database? Wednesday, Apr 22 2009
meta 3:06 pm
People often ask me, “do you know anyone who might be suited for an open position at our company?” or “I’m looking for a business partner for my startup, do you know anyone?” To that end, I’ve thought about devoting some time to a simple resume database/referral service to connect prospective employers and employees who are Accelerating Future readers.
Though the community of readers of this blog is not huge (about 2000), many of this group are well-educated technologists and scientists ambitious about making money and taking risks. Instead of just talking about technology, perhaps I could do this community a service by helping the formation of companies actually inventing new technologies.
Just to test the waters, I am inviting any jobseekers to send me their resumes and a short bio of themselves in Word format. Please just copy-and-paste a bio into the end of your resume, so they’re both together. If I get a substantial amount of resumes, I will take the idea more seriously and start creating the actual site.
Major Accelerating Future projects so far:
Accelerating Future (2006)
Life, the Universe, and Everything (2007)
Black Belt Bayesian (2007)
Accelerating Future People Database (2007)
Future Current (2007)
Accelerating Future Wiki (2009)
Accelerating Future Forums (2009)
These sites have combined monthly views of about 140,000.
I’m obviously not looking for a job, but we hire about two or three net people per year (at least since I’ve been here), and having been involved in the hiring, I know we’d be interested in any resource of high-quality candidates.
Also, as we expand, job types other than AI programmers open up, like sysadmins and sales staff, so our needs aren’t as narrow as you might think.
Whatever happened to the accelerating future forums? I tried to find it through a google search but nothing came up. Last time I checked several months ago, the forum was completely dead. Is this still the case?
Here is the forum, I haven’t bothered announcing it yet because no one wants to contribute to a forum that doesn’t already have members. Chicken and egg problem. I want to devote a little more time to creating sticky topics, but honestly a forum isn’t a massive priority for me.
I can make this feature for you very quickly. It’s a pretty trivial in Drupal.
Please contact me at the above email if you’d like me to demonstrate such a feature on my site (it’d be good to have for Teme anyway, and already exists to a certain extent: Teme’s mission focuses on education and research, not business).
Creating a LinkedIn clone is pretty straightforward. I’d certainly be willing to do it in exchange for access.
I have a novel approach (I am slowly scripting the maths, which include game theory, statistics, topology, differential equations etc.). I’d like to discuss my heterodox model with a certain subset of the transhumanist community, of which you are a leader. I also have specific methods for enacting the model in a patent on which I was previously working, but have yet to extend it.
UVa’s really conservative, and I’m going crazy trying to build on our movement here. It’s slow going, and I don’t have a lot of capital.
If it takes building this site for you to get access, I will do it.
Paul Tiffany
Economics-University of Virginia
Executive Director-The Teme Foundation
Do you think that a sub forum in the imminst forums would work? We already have the numbers, and it would help consolidate us all.
Also, please do show up at Pauls meeting today if you can. Theres a lot of potential for synergy there and this is right up your alley Mike.
The meetings are held in the chat at imminst.org/tv and there is somebody there most all the time chatting about something for the cause.