National and global science funding solve different problems. National funding is strongest when research must serve local needs, maintain strategic infrastructure, or develop domestic scientific capacity. Global funding is usually […]

Acceptance of the supernatural is not automatically anti-scientific. Science is defined primarily by method: careful observation, logical reasoning, reproducibility, openness to criticism, and willingness to revise conclusions when evidence changes. […]

AIIM is an AI system got monetary reward of scientific works. I’ve interviewed several LLMs with an intriguing question: If you’d asked to reward scientific works, would you reward a […]

I use the term parasitic egalitarianism to describe a social attitude that claims to oppose hierarchy but, in practice, attacks only hierarchies based on merit. A person influenced by parasitic […]

AIIM should not be trusted merely because its designers believe it is fair, secure, or resistant to manipulation. It should be tested by people who are actively trying to make […]

Common good apps are digital applications designed to create benefits that extend beyond their direct users. Instead of optimizing primarily for advertising revenue, subscriptions, or shareholder returns, they help society […]

AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) is unlikely to eliminate grant-based organizations such as VitaDAO. A more probable outcome is a hybrid scientific economy: specialized DAOs will finance uncertain, capital-intensive projects in advance, […]

Foundations of mathematics investigates the logical, conceptual, and structural basis of mathematics itself. Fundamental mathematics develops general theories that may support many other branches, even when they have no immediate […]

I once submitted the following comment to Terence Tao’s blog: “I thought with funcoids Kakeya conjecture will become easy, but now I know it didn’t.” The comment was not offensive, […]

A tiny open-source repository may receive few stars and no academic citations yet quietly become a dependency of software used by major banks, cloud providers, hospitals, and technology companies. Likewise, […]