“Monogamous research” makes a lot of sense for narrowly defined and relatively brute force research, but much less for vague fields. For example, within X-risk, we may need someone to write a popular book summary. For this it makes a lot of sense for a few experts to do this while the less knowledgable work on other things for the time being.
The fields you mention are of course much more vague though. My guess is that X-risk can be “polygamous-optimal”, but perhaps only so far that it can be broken up into “monogamous” pieces.
“Monogamous research” makes a lot of sense for narrowly defined and relatively brute force research, but much less for vague fields. For example, within X-risk, we may need someone to write a popular book summary. For this it makes a lot of sense for a few experts to do this while the less knowledgable work on other things for the time being.
The fields you mention are of course much more vague though. My guess is that X-risk can be “polygamous-optimal”, but perhaps only so far that it can be broken up into “monogamous” pieces.