Eric Drexler made what sounds to me like a very similar proposal, and something like this is already done by a fewgroups, unless I’m missing some distinguishing feature.
I’d be very interested in seeing what this particular group’s conclusions were, as well as which methods they would choose to approach these questions. It does seem a little tangential to the SIAI’s stated mission through.
I think (at least part of) the idea is to have young skilled rationalists work with experienced scientists in expectation that their powers combined will be more effective at making sense of some topic than either of them separately.
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I think (at least part of) the idea is to have young skilled rationalists work with experienced scientists in expectation that their powers combined will be more effective at making sense of some topic than either of them separately.