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Great question; I recorded an ep of @rehash yesterday about DeSci and tried to argue the following:
1. Privately-funded Science (PfS) that has been successful (e.g. DeepMind winning the Nobel Prize last year) has been very directed and goal-oriented; there is a clear problem statement when $$ is invested
2. If your two alternatives are PfS and the NSF, then there is a lot that is going to be avoided in 2025. The fact that GLP-1s were discovered via the venom of Heloderma suspectum (which was studied purely non-pharmaceutically) is exactly the type of research that neither PfS nor the NSF would fund today
3. DeSci (today) correctly sees this funding gap; however the action taken so far has been, "instead of being goal-oriented, let's just launch a token and fund anything the NSF/PsF don't fund without discretion or accountability"

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