After years of real-world use, Quadratic Funding has shown systemic flaws that limit its effectiveness for both scientific research and free software development (1, 2). These problems are not implementation […]
How to Use AI Internet-Meritocracy App
This post explains, how to use AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) app in practice. AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) is an app that gathers donations from donors and distributes it between scientists and free […]
Academia Is Not a Meritocracy
Modern academia is not a merit-based system; it systematically rewards credentials, institutional affiliation, and conformity over intellectual merit. While it presents an idealized narrative—publish strong research, gain recognition, secure funding, […]
How Do People Spend Time in Academia in Vain and How AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) Can Solve This Problem?
The Hidden Cost of Academic Inefficiency Modern academia consumes vast amounts of human time while delivering far less scientific output than it could. Researchers, especially early-career scientists and independent scholars, […]
Preliminary Release of the Meritocracy App in 2026
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What Is a DeSci DAO?
DeSci DAO stands for Decentralized Science Decentralized Autonomous Organization (1). It is a blockchain-based organizational model designed to fund, govern, and coordinate scientific research in a transparent, permissionless, and community-driven […]
How Is Science Financing Broken?
Modern science is widely perceived as a meritocratic enterprise driven by evidence, creativity, and rigor. In practice, however, the way science is financed has become one of the central structural […]
Do We Need Managers in Science?
I claim that the future scientific institutions don’t need managers, they need marketers. Moreover, scientific marketing will turn to become a private business rather than big institutions. For decades, modern […]
Attack on Google SERP: A branch of science may effectively disappear from SERPs for a long time in 2026
How Google SERPs would be manipulated at institutional level to exclude an branch of science from search results. An essay written in security vulnerability report style. 25 Jul 2022 note: […]
Science Without Degrees: Why Are Credentials a Lagging Indicator?
Science degrees are harmful. They are a “discrimination engine”, they fatally slow down progress and destroy innovation and science by exclusion of some smart people together with their ideas. For […]