Eli Dourado Just👏let👏people👏build👏things👏

What a baller

In a lot of different domains, philanthropy has the opportunity to test out deeply weird (or fun!) hypotheses that won't otherwise be explored. But most philanthropic foundations are as or more conservative than government funders!

Ideologically, I don't think it's my place to tell people what to do with their money... ...but I really want to.

C. S. Lewis, let's get to work my friends

This is naively how I would like peer review to actually work.

if god wanted us to have energy abundance, there would be an immense fusion reactor in the sky that is visible every single day if you look up

My controversial take is that Metascience is still in its pre-paradigmatic finch-collecting stage. (No offense meant to all my metascience friends! Finch collecting is super important.)