If you’d like to spend 6 or 12 weeks programming with kind, curious people, apply to RC ! When we began rewriting the RC application earlier this year, I was very much inspired by one of the best question sets I’ve come across: the Oxford All Souls Examination papers . They give a choice of one or two questions from a few lists of many fascinating rabbit-hole-openers, which range from abstract philosophical problems (“What is life?”) to open-ended thought experiments (“Should anonymous posting online be forbidden?”) to more practical future-oriented questions (“Is style the last refuge against AI?”). Changing our application was a little scary, because it didn’t feel terrifically broken. We’ve read many thousands of applications from people wanting to attend RC over the years, and have admitted many thousands of wonderful Recursers off of them.…