Below are grounded historical cases where important work was blocked, delayed, or nearly lost because the grant-and-institutional system rewarded consensus, credentials, fashionable topics, or short-term plausibility over real scientific value. […]
AIIM vs PhD Science Grants: Why Science Funding Needs Internet Meritocracy
AIIM vs PhD Science Grants: Two Different Models of Scientific Power Traditional PhD science grants are built around a familiar hierarchy: The AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) model proposes a different path: […]
AIIM vs Nobel Prize: Why the Nobel Prize Is a Failure as a Science-Funding System
The Nobel Prize is still the world’s most famous scientific honor. It is prestigious, media-friendly, and historically important. But as a mechanism for accelerating science, it is a failure. That […]
Why It Is Important to Donate to Science — and Why Government Financing of Science Is Broken
Why Donate to Science? Science is one of the highest-leverage ways to improve human life. A single discovery can create new medicines, better energy systems, safer AI, stronger infrastructure, and […]
AIIM vs Quadratic Funding — core advantage ⚙️
Quadratic funding (QF) is excellent for one narrow problem: “Which public goods have many supporters, and how should a matching pool amplify small donations?” AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) is broader: “Which […]
How Science DAO Can Help Save Mankind from the Terminator
The Real “Terminator” Risk Is Not Robots — It Is AI Without Human Accountability The popular image of the “Terminator” is a killer robot. But the deeper danger is not […]
Ordered Semicategory Actions: Research Status and the Bottleneck Hypothesis
A transparent assessment of ordered semicategory actions (OSA): what the preprint defines, what is claimed, what remains unverified, and what independent review would need to establish.
AI Internet-Meritocracy as a SaaS Product: Solving the Pain of Science Funding
The Pain: Science Funding Is Too Slow, Too Political, and Too Bureaucratic Modern science has a serious funding problem. The pain is not only that there is “not enough money.” […]
Why Global Good Needs More Than Tit-for-Tat “Altruism”
Many people assume that altruism means simple reciprocity: “I help you, then you help me.” This is often called tit-for-tat cooperation. It works in many ordinary situations: friendship, business, local […]
Power, Merit, Money, and the AIIM Model
Two Modes of Hierarchy: Power and Merit Every society contains at least two overlapping hierarchies: Hierarchy of Power This hierarchy answers the question: “Who can make decisions that affect others?” […]