I don&#x27;t disagree with you - I just mean something else by ambitious projects.<p>Take politics for instance - can anyone under 30 accomplish anything ambitious in politics? Probably not.<p>The brilliant minds who&#x27;ve contributed to math&#x2F;science I imagine oftentimes had great teachers along the way. Not always.<p>The ambitious projects I have in mind go beyond solving a previously unsolved math problem - I am thinking of something more calculated and long-term like wikipedia.<p>If we can give a lot of people in the world the best educational materials by the best teachers - that&#x27;s a massive win.<p>If we can secure funding for people who show promise and let them affect the real world, not just &#x27;do research&#x27; - that&#x27;s a massive win.<p>In other words - the problems we&#x27;re facing are not really science problems, they&#x27;re philosophical and societal problems that require a willingness of the current ruling class to say ok, this isn&#x27;t working, let us try something new here.<p>That&#x27;d be nearly unprecedented - another smart kid solving another science riddle, that&#x27;s cool too :)