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on the slowed pace of innovation, pulling together several s from the past 24 hours, plus other related thoughts/references…
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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?Prikaži ovu nit
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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Making alt-research institutions happen will probably require alt-researchers to collectively come up with a coherent story about how they can be managed, convincing enough to persuade grantors that it’s feasible and worthwhile.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1196491007891652608 …
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Plausibly, the key missing input is administrative capacity with: openness to fund peculiar, high-risk projects; enough sense to not fund exclusively crackpots; enough bureaucratic expertise to make things run smoothly; enough hatred of bureaucracy to mostly get out of the way
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This is an extremely unusual collection of abilities; and perhaps anyone who could do the job would not want it. But such people are found more often in Silicon Valley than anywhere else, and maybe some successful founder would be willing to take it on for the leverage?
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The mindset and skillset needed to manage alt-researchers is quite different from those most alt-researchers have themselves. Alt-researchers left academia because they want to be left alone to do research and hate bureaucracy. Creating institutions is the last thing they want
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Maybe the way forward is for alt-researchers to explain what is needed clearly enough that the sorts of people who do have the mindset and skillset will understand the importance of the job and step forward to fill the gap.
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Can confirm, now that I do grantmaking. This is a mess.
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I have some vague sense that this issue is reaching critical mass!
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Keeping the admin of assessment on the funder and not on the scientists has been useful in the past (DARPA) and I think
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The effective altruism community has successfully built a mechanism to get SV millionaires to part with their money for their causes.
@tylercowen &@vgr's funding threads seem to be arguing for a kind of "effective science". - Još 6 drugih odgovora
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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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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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