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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted Venkatesh brrrRao

      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 brrrRao @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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn 18 Nov 2019
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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 @cziscience may be an interesting current case study for this.

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    5. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn 18 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @mrgunn @Meaningness

      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".

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    6. Venkatesh brrrRao‏ @vgr 18 Nov 2019
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      Not really, that’s a bad comparison at least for what I’m getting at. That’s actually what’s kinda slowly choking traditional research (citation numbers, impact factors, patent counts, ROI mentality). I’m thinking more a kind of disciplined narrative-driven visionary romanticism.

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    7. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn 19 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @vgr @Meaningness @tylercowen

      EA does have a strong narrative & vision, so can serve as a useful guide for more romantic efforts in how to get attention. Also, the problem with metrics isn't metrics, but the gap between the metric & what it's a proxy for.

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    8. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn 19 Nov 2019
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      So if CZI is directing its funding to things aligned with its values, and foundations collectively are also doing so, that reflects the collective will & vision of society. Part of the problem is how vision has been subjugated to metrics, yes, but also how poor the metrics are.

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 19 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @mrgunn @vgr @tylercowen

      There seems to be a specificity gap between funders’ “vision” and execution. “We want to use this money to enable innovative scientific research” is not really a vision; it lacks a how. (I know almost nothing about CZI specifically.)

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    10. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn 19 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @vgr @tylercowen

      Maybe they're not the best example of a clear "how", but more central planning of research projects is distinctly different from how most bio research is funded.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 19 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @mrgunn @vgr @tylercowen

      The lottery model is exciting because it *is* innovative and decreases work. But it also seems an abdication of responsibility. Time may tell? Interesting point about CZI’s more-top-down model; I hadn’t thought of this (probably partly because I know so little about them).

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        2. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn 19 Nov 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @vgr @tylercowen

          I don't think it's an abdication of responsibility, rather a honest admission that which grants are above the payline is *somewhat* arbitrary, past a minimum threshold of viability/interestingness.

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        3. mrgunn‏ @mrgunn 19 Nov 2019
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          I recently got a small metascience grant where they threw out the bottom ~1/3rd and awarded the rest by lottery. Made it easier to submit, also avoided the "pick a metric and rank applications because you have to draw a line somewhere" thing.

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