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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

      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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      Venkatesh brrrRao @vgr
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      Probably not anytime soon, and the fault is probably more on our side as wannabe beneficiaries of such a system as much as those with capital to deploy. There is a significant lack of imagination and energy on both sides of the capital supply/demand equation.
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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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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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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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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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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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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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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 18 Nov 2019
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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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    6. Rival Voices‏ @nosilverv 27 Nov 2019
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      Won't convincing a smart billionaire to fund your startup effectively be this? Get lots of time to research whatever if something monetizable comes from it great, become Chief Science Officer, if not then too bad?

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Nov 2019
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      Startups are supposed to produce exponential revenue within ~18 months. Research isn’t their thing. (Biotech can be an exception.) And they take a lot of admin. The CSO mostly does recruiting and PR.

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    8. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 27 Nov 2019
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      Yeah, one of my hard-earned lessons from working at too many startups is that any startup whose plan involves non-trivial research is: 1. Lying. Possibly to themselves, certainly to you. 2. Doomed. Startups are for trying things we know how to do but haven't done well yet.

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    9. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 27 Nov 2019
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      There might be some ways to do a research startup that work, but product-focused startups aren't them. I've occasionally thought about researcher-for-hire models but I've not looked into it in detail.

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @DRMacIver @nosilverv

      The question is who wants what sort of research done on what terms. There are various classes of research-for-hire cos., e.g. CROs (for routine life science stuff), defense contractors who slurp up most of the NASA research budget, political/policy thinktanks, etc.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver @nosilverv

      The original musing was about how to get funding for projects that are high risk, high value, and not obviously within any funder's mandate, e.g. because they are in pre-paradigm domains, or take a highly unusual cross-disciplinary approach.

      7:55 AM - 27 Nov 2019
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        2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 27 Nov 2019
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          I've been impressed with @tylercowen's Emergent Ventures program for its initial work along these lines. I hope it scales up (at a sustainable pace!) and that other similar programs emerge. Very dependent on the good taste of the person/team choosing projects to fund.

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        3. David R. MacIver‏ @DRMacIver 27 Nov 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @nosilverv @tylercowen

          Yeah I wasn't really suggesting that researcher-for-hire was a valid model for you, just caveating my "research in startups never works" with the one class of exception. (Although it's not really an exception, because it's services work, so scales linearly not exponentially)

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        1. Rival Voices‏ @nosilverv 27 Nov 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @DRMacIver

          Can you open your DMs for a second I want to send you something but Twitter flags it as a bot

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