AMC is still a working pipeline for U.S. math talent, critics say
Singularitarian · x · 2026-07-26
A rebuttal to the claim that the U.S. would miss math prodigies today argues the opposite: the country has a long-running talent pipeline in the AMC. The thread says AMC selects the U.S. team for the IMO, and notes that alumni include Noam Shazeer, who co-invented Transformers, and Paul Christiano, who co-invented RLHF.
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