List of Under-Investigated Fields—Matthew McAteer

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This post from Sep 2019 suggests a bunch of academic fields that are under-explored.

Table of Contents

🧙‍♂️ Origins of this List

🧐 Criteria for Inclusion

📃 THE LIST

🖥️ Computer Science

• 👶 Lifelong learning

• 💿 Transfer Learning

• 🖇️ Computronium

• 💣 Existential risks posed by technical debt

• 🏗️ Higher-level programming languages (and actually building large systems with them)

• 🗜️ Specialized Hardware for Probabilistic computing

• 🛂 Intuitive Visual cryptographic proofs

• 👨‍⚖️ Lexicographic conversions between algorithms and legal codes

🧱 Materials Science

• ⛱️ High-energy Radiation insulation

• 🏺 High-density self-healing materials

• 🌲 Incorporation of still-living materials into structures

🐁 Biology

• 🥶 Cryobiology

• 🧫 Immortal Model Organisms

• 🧬 Biological Radiation resistance

• 📉 Chaotic systems in biology

🌏 Geoscience

• 🌧️ Terraforming & Weather Control

• 🌋 Exploration of Earth’s Mantle

📈 Economics

• ⏲️ Intentionally Self-destructing organizations

• 💰 Successful anti-corruption strategies

• 👨‍🏭 Organizational psychology and operations for unions

• 🏙️ Charter Cities

• 🤷 How to account for the revealed preference problem

🧠 Neuroscience

• 🧮 Different categories of neural plasticity

• 🤗 Extreme Empathy

• 🧘 Healthy psychological baselines

• 😰 Anti-neurosis & PTSD-resistance

• 🧟‍♂️ Necroneurology

• 🎲 Communication of Probability and Uncertainty

📐 Architecture

• 👷 Large-scale Reconfigurable architecture

➕ Mathematics

• 🔁 Techniques for combining dependent instead of independent p-values for meta-analysis

• 🔲 Experimental design using solutions to problems in Latin Squares

• 🌐 Patterns among proofs for subspace-packing problems

⚛️ Physics

• 🎛️ Increasing Iteration Speed of Experimental Physics

• 🌀 Reservoir Computing for Dynamical Systems

• 🧿 Ball Lightning

• 🚀 Nuclear-powered propulsion for Aeronautics

• ♾️ What is the actual value of “Mathematical beauty”?

🤔 Philosophy

• ⚖️ Experimental Ethics

• 💸 Effective Altruism

• 👩‍🔬 Improving the iteration speed of scientific knowledge

• 👨‍🏫 Alternatives to Peer-review-based funding

🔮 Conclusions and Next Steps