If I could get my hands on some money, I’d very much like to see it channeled into neuroscience research to better scan brains so we can identify the mechanisms at work, although I’m not sure how much differential impact this would have, as my outsider impression is that this kind of work is already happening, and at best I could only slightly nudge it towards directions I think are useful but would largely be bottlenecked by the need for more fundamental, broadly useful work in neuroscience to be done first.
The other possibility would be to retrain myself as a neuroscientist so I could do this work myself, but I think that works against my comparative advantages at this point in my life.
If I could get my hands on some money, I’d very much like to see it channeled into neuroscience research to better scan brains so we can identify the mechanisms at work, although I’m not sure how much differential impact this would have, as my outsider impression is that this kind of work is already happening, and at best I could only slightly nudge it towards directions I think are useful but would largely be bottlenecked by the need for more fundamental, broadly useful work in neuroscience to be done first.
The other possibility would be to retrain myself as a neuroscientist so I could do this work myself, but I think that works against my comparative advantages at this point in my life.