What's something that strikes you as very unusual that very smart people are working on?
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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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MIRI's logical reflection approach to AI safety. I don't think it's the right approach, but clearly unusual and not unequivocally false.
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I should clarify that I do believe it's part of the right approach for long term safety *after* AGI, just not as relevant to the first go.
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