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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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      Ah, hmm, while looking for an old tweet of mine on this topic, I discovered a 2017 thread that made most of the same points I’m about to tweet today! Both draw on an unfinished blog post that apparently I ought to polish up and publish for reference…https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/843950702187560960 …

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      Research universities used to provide conducive circumstances for thinking—but perverse incentives and administrative idiocies negated that.
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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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      Some types of cognitive work, which may be critical for innovative breakthroughs, are apparently *impossible* except under highly specialized circumstances that are mostly no longer available. This *might* explain why we’re continuing to make progress in “normal science” only.

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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      .@michael_nielsen and I discussed this yesterday in a tweet thread that unfortunately forked so it's a bit hard to point to, but here's one pointer into it:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1196125642342858753 …

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      Many of my projects require specific non-ordinary cognitive modes to proceed, and it usually takes me about three full-time days to get myself into the relevant state. Any significant interruption aborts the process.
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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Some outstanding researchers recognize the problem and go independent, hoping that it’s easier to do serious thinking outside an institutional context than within one. In this 🧵 @vgr explains some of the reasons that mostly doesn’t work:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195789557465153536 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      I was briefly calling myself an independent researcher: somebody who self-funds spec R&D on their own ideas. In theory it’s something like indie-research : academic research :: blogging/self-publishing : traditional publishing. But the idea doesn’t really work.
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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      We urgently need alternative mechanisms/institutions for research support. This 🧵 from @vgr crunches some numbers: what would that cost? Answer: surprisingly little, in the scale of things.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195937380210921472 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      Thinking about my thread this morning on why independent research is hard, and what it would take to make it possible, and whether it’s within the reach of private investors who ALL complain endlessly about how they have far too much capital and don’t know where to put it. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1195789557465153536 …
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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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      .@vgr’s 🧵 also covers many of the issues that come up in discussions of alt-research funding and institutions. This is a common, live discussion among people I talk with often. There’s growing momentum and consensus in the conversation, but will it lead to action?

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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      I suspect the central challenge here is to find alternative mechanisms for selecting what research/researchers to fund. How do grantors know their money is being well-spent? Who makes those decisions? Is there a way to do this that doesn’t just replicate the existing pathologies?

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    8. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 18 Nov 2019
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      Addressing this would do a lot of good!!! My hunch is that the macro science “slowdown” is caused mostly by something else, though: a lack of *tools* that scale to the complexity of biology and intelligence, and a lack of ARPA-level big focused projects to make & apply them.

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    9. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 18 Nov 2019
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      In 20th century there was a surprising alignment of theories and tools to test and inspire them. Big Bang->telescopes. Replicating molecule->X-Ray diffraction. Computing->Vacuum tube/transistor. All huge efforts to build.

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    10. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 18 Nov 2019
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      For bio and brain+mind, we’ve lacked tools that scale to say, test in a real common sense physical social world a model of how a mind develops. Or to map an entire brain. Or perturb one type of cell in real time in an intact organism.

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      Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 18 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @AdamMarblestone @Meaningness

      This can all change in the next 10 years.

      10:24 AM - 18 Nov 2019
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        1. Adam Marblestone‏ @AdamMarblestone 18 Nov 2019
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          Not to diminish the importance of theoretical research. But theoretical progress in bio and brain, maybe social/political/economic sciences too, will rest on new tech and large scale systems thereof.

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        1. Stephen Malina‏ @an1lam 18 Nov 2019
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          How?! Say more, please?

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