I've done some work around the edges of IARPA. It's not exclusivly computing BTW.
It's pretty much DARPA with smaller budgets. Some pretty interesting projects - the one about increasing human intelligence with magnets is pretty far out!
I wouldn't say the results are exactly conclusive, but there did seem to be some results showing that pain can be reduced in some circumstances.
And while "magnets" sounds like some kind of crystal therapy or something, ignoring those aspects it's actually exactly the kind of way-out things that *ARPA should be funding.
"but there did seem to be some results showing that pain can be reduced in some circumstances"
Even though that sounds not more deep than placebo.
Apart from that I am also open to crystal therapie. You know, the world is quite made up of quants and crystals can focus and polarize quants .. so if someone has some claim with more substance than that and wants to do a scientific research about it, why not.
But so far I have seen only esoteric "research".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Advanced_Research...