I bet every top 5 VC, PE, and Big Tech firm could each sustain 20% NSF CAREER type indie research network, 3x-ing total R&D bandwidth of the US. With expectations of open source/license output. Restock the commons without need for big 60s/70s style government programs.
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Clarification: I only considered CAREER grants rather than the vastly larger total funding pie because bootstrapping the”startup” phase is the hardest part of research. My speculative assumption is that if that’s solved, enough will succeed that larger pie will emerge organicallyhttps://twitter.com/Danderso13/status/1196040865170546688 …
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Several people seem to be misunderstanding this part of my argument. The CAREER grant is a good calibration point even though it’s only a tiny fraction, because it’s what creates new research CAPACITY in the university system out of new PhD ranks. That’s what I’d like to see 3xed
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I seem to have accidentally joined a mini-wave of commentary on indie research. Here is
@nayafia describing her experience, a kind of edge case between the sort of indie research I’m talking about and existing institutional margins.https://nadiaeghbal.com/phdShow this thread -
And here’s a piece by James Gallagher https://twitter.com/jamesg_oca/status/1196080062447149056 …
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Here’s John Carmack’s announcement which is what got me tweeting. Not sure what gotbthe others thinking about this right now. https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2547632585471243&id=100006735798590 …
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Aside: a few seem to be reading this thread as a proposal for a disruptive attack on the university research system rather than speculations for a parallel system for a potential indie research world. But yes, it could potentially lead to competition, which would be a good thing.
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It’s a ritual in the university world to whine about how research funding is under threat. But from the outside, people would correctly conclude that the system has near-monopolistic access to a vast public funding budget. And my proposal doesn’t even envision touching that.
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If the university research world is concerned about competition from a parallel independent research world catalyzed by private funding and alternate norms, one that currently has vanishingly tiny funding (mostly self-funding) compared to their world, you have to wonder: why?
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I wonder what would happen if I invited people to send me 1-page proposals in a pro-forma for indie mini-CAREER grants and just threw up a page linking to all of them, then promoting that page. I bet I could match at least a few proposals to private funding sources
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