"We argue that: (1) metascience is an imaginative design practice, exploring an enormous design space for social processes; (2) that exploration aims to find new social processes which unlock latent potential for discovery; (3) decentralized change must be possible, so outsiders with superior ideas can't be blocked by established power centers..."
"The question 'how would aliens do science?' is fun to consider, if fanciful. But it's also a good stimulus for immediately human-relevant questions... suppose you were given a large sum of money – say, a hundred million dollars, or a billion dollars, or even ten or a hundred billion or a trillion dollars – and asked to start a new scientific institution, perhaps a research institute or funder. What would you do with the money?"