World Science DAO’s AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) project works in the following way: See for more detail:

Science DAO’s Meritocracy app provides funding for both free software developers and researchers. We provide the following services:

AI Internet-Meritocracy app provides significant advantages for various social groups, including scientists, free software authors, and philanthropists by leveraging AI instead of traditional institutional gatekeeping. How AIIM grants are good […]

TL;DR AI systems cannot serve as independent judges or voters because shared training creates structural similarity. Stable AI governance therefore requires cognitively independent human arbiters. AbstractThis paper argues that large […]

AI Internet-Meritocracy app offers an easy way to get grants for software or research, without grant writing and without the requirement to have a science degree. To earn money with […]

Supporting science does not automatically mean supporting universities. While universities present themselves as the guardians of scientific progress, modern academic institutions increasingly act as bureaucratic gatekeepers that slow innovation, misallocate […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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