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Like it. What you actually do.
Eww. Pretentious and barely relevant. Some guy who wrote a paper in 1965. Whatever. Do it if for some reason you think prestigious sounding initials will give enough academic credibility to make up for having a lame irrelevant name. Money and prestige are more important than self respect.
Architectures? Word abuse! Why not go all the way and throw in "emergent"?
Not too bad.
How is it word abuse? "Architecture" is much more informative than "magic" or "thingy"; it conveys that they investigate how putting together algorithms results in optimization. That differentiates them from Givewell, The United Nations First Committee, the International Risk Governance Council, The Cato Institute, ICOS, Club of Rome, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the Foresight Institute, and most other organizations I can think of that study global economic / political / ecological stability, x-risk reduction, or optimal philanthropy.