Incentivize researchers to prioritize paradigm shifts rather than incremental advances
Economic growth, Research That Can Help Us Improve
There’s a plausible case that societal under-innovation is one of the largest causes (if not the largest cause) of people’s suboptimal well-being. For example, scientific research could be less risk-averse/incremental and more pro-moonshots. Interdiscplinary research on how to achieve society’s full innovation potential, and movement-building targeted at universities, scientific journals, and grant agencies to incentivize scientific moonshots could potentially be very impactful.
Incentivize researchers to prioritize paradigm shifts rather than incremental advances
Economic growth, Research That Can Help Us Improve
There’s a plausible case that societal under-innovation is one of the largest causes (if not the largest cause) of people’s suboptimal well-being. For example, scientific research could be less risk-averse/incremental and more pro-moonshots. Interdiscplinary research on how to achieve society’s full innovation potential, and movement-building targeted at universities, scientific journals, and grant agencies to incentivize scientific moonshots could potentially be very impactful.