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 […]
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 […]