Many people are taught that wanting more money is morally suspicious. A good person, we are told, should be satisfied with little, avoid personal ambition, and think primarily about others. […]
For Which Sciences Is AIIM Most Important?
AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) is potentially most important for sciences in which valuable work is inexpensive to perform but difficult for conventional institutions to recognize, classify, or fund. These include fundamental […]
How Government Creates the Illusion That Society Is Already Organized
Government can coordinate taxation, regulation, public services, and national programs. But the existence of these institutions can produce a dangerous misunderstanding: people begin to assume that society itself is already […]
Have Any LLMs Reliably Resisted Prompt Injection?
Short answer: No—not in a security-relevant sense. Some experiments have reported prompt-injection attack success rates below 1% on particular benchmarks, and sometimes 0% against selected attacks. But these results do […]
AI Internet-Meritocracy as a Multi-Level Infrastructure for Research Funding: Comparative Advantages, Governance Risks, and an Adversarial Evaluation Agenda
Abstract Research funding is commonly allocated through competitive grants, institutional block funding, performance-based formulas, philanthropy, prizes, crowdfunding, and lotteries. Each mechanism addresses different policy objectives but also creates characteristic distortions, […]
Notes/Story/Ethics on Further Development of AI Internet-Meritocracy and Mathematics
AIIM was programmed to only reward people who have new developments in last 3 months. I thought, that I should possibly interrupt my further development of ordered semicategory actions (ordered […]
Deficiencies of AI Internet-Meritocracy: Incentives, Evaluation Risks, and Governance Limits
AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) is a proposed system for distributing donated money among scientists and free and open-source software developers according to AI-assessed merit. It attempts to replace grant applications, institutional […]
Which Organization Should You Donate Money to for Science?
The best organization to donate money to for science depends on what you want your donation to accomplish. Donate to a disease-specific charity when you want to advance research on […]
Can Funding Methods Be Ranked by Fairness?
Yes, funding methods can be compared and provisionally ranked by fairness—but only after defining what “fair” means. A system may be procedurally impartial while distributing money inefficiently. Another may reward […]
Why People Do Not Donate to Science Precisely Because It Is Important
Scientific research is essential to medicine, technology, economic development, environmental protection, and our understanding of reality. Yet science receives far fewer individual donations than many causes with more immediate and […]
