I recommend this new paper about slowing innovation from @bswud & @tylercowen, from which I’ll extract what might (or might not) be a relatively minor point overall:https://twitter.com/bswud/status/1196338882821984257 …
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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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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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A basic problem is lack of administrative energy. Research requires enlightened administration more than most demanding human activities. Kinda like people on spacewalks or deep-sea dives need a mission control partner at safer loci. This is a thankless task few want to do.
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Like, I stepped off a career path in industrial R&D that would have gone from program management to lab management. It simply did not look like fun compared. I'd probably be willing to do it under some special conditions, like an exciting dream-team to work with. Those are rare.
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Our org-structure-for-research, Turtleocracy, could help here. https://www.notion.so/humsys/Turtleocracy-47a6df7692bf4e95a39504a73a50a295 … /cc
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Rachel Traylor was looking at this from another angle (unfortunately she's left Twitter now)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqSr7HTweLM …
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@danamlewis and our http://openingpathways.org team had immense trouble persuading funders and universities to fund a patient-pi who was not at an institution... even one ahead of private industry in medical device innovation.Hvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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