What's something that strikes you as very unusual that very smart people are working on?
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Good examples from past: cryptocurrencies in the 80s & 90s (Chaum, Finney et al); or dinosaur-meteor extinction (Alvarez's) even earlier
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Doesn't need to be right, just very unusual and not obviously, unequivocally false.
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Another nice example: David Glanzman and others' work on the idea that long-term memories may not be stored in synapses.
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Another good example from the past: Julian Jaynes' outrageous-but-stimulating theory of consciousness.
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Another good example: Cairns-Smith's theory that clay crystals formed an intermediary in the origin of life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Cairns-Smith …
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If you haven't already seen this, some examples from SSC's recap of weirdness at an Effective Altruism conference. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/16/fear-and-loathing-at-effective-altruism-global-2017/ …pic.twitter.com/DFXEOmDqjT
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Saw it, but yes, interesting!
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Corrigibility and alignment. Very unusual (bordering on cargo-cultish), but not obviously wrong, if you make some strange assumptions.
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