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Well, she agreed to the deal and is as much an academic as either you or Ilya, so either the deal has details not mentioned which make it seem less harsh, or she believes it's not so hard or slow as you do.
Very likely.
I am amused by the possibility that accepting a grant to do decision theory work is itself a poor decision.
One imagines Briggs's mental monologue: "maybe I should calculate the EV of this paper... Come on, Rachel, this is serious!"