Many researchers have lost a lot of funding in light of Trump’s NSF cuts. Notably Terry Tao and IPAM. Open Phil and others around here have a bunch of money. I say this because people (at least used to) talk a bunch about “alignment pilling” very good mathematicians and other researchers (like biologists).
Filling in their funding gap right now seems like a first step to being able to nudge their research direction. Even if not, its still valuable research, and currently that research is going for cheap!
Many researchers have lost a lot of funding in light of Trump’s NSF cuts. Notably Terry Tao and IPAM. Open Phil and others around here have a bunch of money. I say this because people (at least used to) talk a bunch about “alignment pilling” very good mathematicians and other researchers (like biologists).
Filling in their funding gap right now seems like a first step to being able to nudge their research direction. Even if not, its still valuable research, and currently that research is going for cheap!