The entire modern computer industry was invented at Xerox PARC because @jseelybrown personally hired brilliant weirdos and mostly left them alone to do whatever eccentric things they came up with. Just pushing them to talk to each other instead of geeking out solo.
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Sufficiently large institutions should have no problem with a portfolio of such "investments" as long as they can distinguish legitimate high risk / high reward work from work that is simply doomed to fail from the beginning.
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The latter is the problem. Accountable institutions have to evaluate people “objectively” instead of on the basis of “JSB thinks she’s a smart weirdo”. It’s the attempt at objective fairness that creates a Goodhart’s Law dynamic, which is why 95% of science is wasted effort.
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