What's something that strikes you as very unusual that very smart people are working on?
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Example: the constructor theory of
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Example: the de-extinction work by people like
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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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Replying to @michael_nielsen
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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The qualia economy stuff is very reminiscent of Hesse's glass bead game (from the 1940s!)
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