IN THIS EPISODE: Stripe Press’s Tamara Winter talks through the broad range of scientific funding institutions with guests Professor Tyler Cowen, Arc Institute Co-Founder Professor Patrick Hsu, and Convergent Research CEO Adam Marblestone. They pay special attention to the renaissance in new, exploratory scientific funding models.
“Metascience 101” is a nine-episode set of interviews that doubles as a crash course in the debates, issues, and ideas driving the modern metascience movement. We investigate why building a genuine “science of science” matters, and how research in metascience is translating into real-world policy changes.
Chapters
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:01:53) Why now?
(00:06:16) Focused Research Organizations
(00:12:15) Arc Institute
(00:16:15) Fast Grants
(00:22:26) Convergent project selection
(00:27:31) Counterfactuals and when they matter
(00:35:43) Type of person for FROs
(00:41:29) Is OpenAI an FRO?
(00:45:30) Dealing with risk
(00:51:55) Underinvested weird science
(00:56:13) Government’s role
(01:00:20) Reasons for excitement
(01:07:12) What’s next?
(01:12:32) Get involved
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