Michael Kratsios
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623 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 24 Aug
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And that is why we wrote, we wrote New Golden Age.
And for us, the first basic question we always ask ourselves is: is the government spending on something that the private sector or others in the community, like philanthropy, are not incentivized to do?
And that should be your first your first cut at all points.
And then you should ask yourself: kind of, what are the most important priorities for?
The United States.
And I think that is something that sometimes is almost like a tension with the science community.
Many sort of people believe that, you know, all discovery science is good and you should have no opinion about what's important.
Mm.
And I think we would say, like, no, we disagree.
Like the government is a set of elected individuals.
Congress has a very strong opinion about where we should spend money, and they direct science funding all the time through their appropriations.
And the executive branch should have some sort of thesis.
About what's important for the country.
I know we'll talk about China in a second, but we have to win on things like on AI, on quantum, on nuclear, on bio.
Um, and I think there we can there can be an overlay of kind of what are the biggest priorities for the US government and make sure that the gaps of places where, you know, the private sector and where philanthropy and others aren't able to fill the need, the government can step in.
My view as a science advisor is that we should meet the best scientists wherever they are.
If they're at a university, we should fund them.
If they're at a focused research organization, we should fund them.
If they're on their own, in their garage, do incredible work and can pass a merit, a merit-based review panel, we should fund them in their garage.
And to me, I think the idea that we are open to funding scientists outside of universities.
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