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 …
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.
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@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. -
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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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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