The Peers

The argumentative essay that I am writing will optimally be enjoyed by a group of computer scientists with a light background in AI and economics. I think that my ideal peers would be a jolly group, I imagine their names would be something along the lines of Alan, Agamemnon, and Bojian. When you first read this rather diverse group of names you will probably wonder why would I pick these particular people? Each person has a particular quality that I think would help me further improve this essay. Alan (who is Alan Turing’s descendent) is rather young but has a strong background in algorithmic computer science and so would be able to help with the purely algorithmic aspects of  my hypothesis but would be young enough to remember the days when he thought he could actually think up something remotely original. Agamemnon is an old man (with a long grey beard, because someone needs a beard) who has never been an academic and has a purely practical view on whether things will work or not. His opinion will be one of experience and he will have had decades to temper his style of communication and critique. Finally, Bojian is a Chinese academic who is through and through academic, has no desire to be anything else, and speaks bad English. Though his English is the worst will be the best critic of the readability of my paper, if the ideas are communicated clearly to someone who is not a native speaker and they are still logically sound then I must have done well communicating them.  From this group of people I would hope to get a well-rounded group of critiques that would help improve (or encourage me to go on to a different area of research) my topic.