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In the old days science was done by independently wealthy people, and how successful it was. Can today's scientists create profitable enterprises to fund their work? FHI is supposedly full of good programmers. Say, everyone works on a joint project half a week and does science the other half. Sounds like a real world application for the community's rationality and cooperation abilities, what do you say Eliezer?
Much more so than today not just per scientist but even compared to world population. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625066.500-entering-a-dark-age-of-innovation.html