How many RFSs have been released?
lkozma: I find these lists of "RFSs" and the earlier list of ideas rather disappointing... I don't think that formulating a problem in such general terms is really useful and I don't think it works at all to create such a "framework" for an idea which someone just comes and fills in with the concrete details. It really reminds me of academic grant applications where there is some grand vision laid out for 5 years, in which only the details need to be worked out. However, the details are all that matter, without the "how to do it" I don't think such ideas add anything valuable.The line "Ex-Googlers would be particularly well suited to this project" is again the kind of credential-based test that large organizations and the government would like. This all starts to sound much less than the startup-culture that PG talks about in his essays. In this context, using a bit more informal language than in grant proposals and job adverts is slowly becoming a bit gimmicky.