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Given that the current system is onerous and likely flawed, you would imagine that NIH leadership has repeatedly tested whether the current method is superior than say a modified lottery, aka having an initial screen and then randomly giving out the money.

We should randomize investigators to an RO1 cap at 2 vs not and study the effects.

Although we process information, we do not do it the way that computers do.” Even to ask the question, he argues, of “whether a computer has captured the essence of human reason is a diversion, if not a trap, because the real question — do humans understand the essence of humans? — cannot be answered or resolved by technology.”

nstead, I would rather see us conduct studies, repeatedly, to learn of our processes are efficient. I would like to see us incentivize reproducibility. And then, if we are able to deliver, I would like to see the percent of funding going to science increase. I believe that in a working society, 10% of health care spending should be on medical... See more

n Computer Power and Human Reason, Weizenbaum insists that “humans and computers are not species of the same genus,” since humans “face problems no machine could possibly be made to face.

Because universities took strident positions and became the academic wing of the Democrat party, they increasingly forfeited trust.

Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine. It is a living system. When we attempt to rebuild the ecosystem , we’re making a category error. We’re confusing the software for the ecological process unfolding around it.

Deep in the very heart of Australia, amid a vast, arid, featureless plain, now known as the Amadeus Basin, you will discover a great wonder of the world and a great mystery.

Current NIH RO1 grants are 20 pages of science and 80 pages of fluff.