Artificial intelligence can detect some forms of scientific fraud faster and more consistently than humans, especially when screening large numbers of papers for duplicated images, copied text, statistical anomalies, and […]
Funding Teams vs Funding Individuals: Which Model Produces Better Science?
Research funding is often presented as a choice between supporting individual investigators and financing research teams. Both models are necessary, but they solve different problems. Individual funding protects intellectual independence, […]
The Economics of Scientific Reputation: How Prestige Becomes Funding, Influence, and Inequality
Scientific reputation is not merely admiration. It is an economically valuable asset that affects who receives research funding, who attracts talented collaborators, whose papers are read, and whose claims are […]
Should Donors Fund Research, Evaluation, or Scientific Infrastructure?
Donors should rarely choose exclusively between research, evaluation, and scientific infrastructure. A healthy scientific funding portfolio needs all three: research produces new knowledge, evaluation identifies and improves valuable work, and […]
Wanting More Money Can Be a Moral Good
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 […]
