Personally, I would put it towards the mission of The Roots of Progress, which is to to establish a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century. As I wrote in an announcement a few months ago:
The new philosophy of progress needs a movement to establish it. The pillars of this movement are:
Intellectual foundations: a lot of research, thinking, and writing, to better understand and communicate the lessons of progress, and to apply them to the problems of today and the opportunities for tomorrow.
Community-building: events, forums, meetups, and conferences for the progress community to exchange ideas, forge relationships, and start projects.
Cultural outreach: from school curricula, to inventor biopics, to sci-fi that paints a positive vision of the future.
Which research areas would you be most excited to support to accelerate progress (energy comes to mind, open to many more for funding via https://www.molecule.to/ and https://www.bio.xyz/), and which “applied metascience” seems most useful beyond new institutions for funding r&d such as PARPA, FROs?
How would you allocate $10 million to create the most positive long-term progress?
Personally, I would put it towards the mission of The Roots of Progress, which is to to establish a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century. As I wrote in an announcement a few months ago:
I described this more in “What would a thriving progress movement look like?”
Other than that, I would be inclined to fund innovative new models for R&D, such as Ben Reinhardt’s Private ARPA or Convergent Research’s FROs.
Sounds awesome, agree!
Which research areas would you be most excited to support to accelerate progress (energy comes to mind, open to many more for funding via https://www.molecule.to/ and https://www.bio.xyz/), and which “applied metascience” seems most useful beyond new institutions for funding r&d such as PARPA, FROs?
Nanotech and longevity seem underrated. A few years ago I would have said fusion but now there seems to be a lot of investment there.