Village Global Podcast
Increasing Scientific Progress and Improving Institutions with Alexey Guzey
Dec 31, 2020
Alexey Guzey, an independent researcher, discusses improving scientific institutions, decentralization of funding in life sciences, disagreements with thinkers like Tyler Cowen, limitations of GDP as a measure of progress, critique of effective altruism, and the relationship between effective altruism and Christianity.
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Quick takeaways
- To improve scientific institutions, it is important to run small experiments and explore different ways to fund science, as well as involve more small organizations in distributing funding.
- Decentralization is crucial in the science funding domain, allowing multiple organizations to compete and experiment with different funding approaches, leading to the funding of more interesting research.
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Improving Scientific Institutions
The guest, Alexi Guzi, aims to make institutions of science work better and build better scientific institutions. He acknowledges the problems with scientific institutions that people commonly mention, such as peer review, the journal system, and grant processes. However, he emphasizes that these issues require a deep understanding of the complexities of the scientific ecosystem. To improve existing institutions, Guzi suggests running small experiments and trying different ways to fund science, as well as involving more small organizations in distributing funding.
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