Perhaps a general “willingness to commit” X % funding to criticism of areas which are heavily funded by the EA-aligned funding organization could work as a general heuristic for enabling the second idea.
(e.g. if “pro current X-risk” research in general gets N funding then some % of N would be made available for “critical work” in the same area. But in science it can be sometimes hard to even say which is a critical work and which is a work that builds on top of existing work.)
Perhaps a general “willingness to commit” X % funding to criticism of areas which are heavily funded by the EA-aligned funding organization could work as a general heuristic for enabling the second idea.
(e.g. if “pro current X-risk” research in general gets N funding then some % of N would be made available for “critical work” in the same area. But in science it can be sometimes hard to even say which is a critical work and which is a work that builds on top of existing work.)
Sounds good. At the more granular and practical end, this sounds like red-teaming, which is often just good practice.