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Donating money or crypto to AIIM project is a great way to amplify your global impact, because it pinpoints the crux of global economic inefficiency, unjust financing of R&D, including science and free software.
Please, support us. (“Think big, start small” – even a little donation on this beginning stage of the project will have a great effect, so called effective altruism.) Also, please link to this site, to increase its rating on Google, and pass a short survey. Also we welcome volunteer software developers to join.
Project’s importance
This is how both science and software work in modern world:

- Predatory and deceptive publishing practices can weaken quality control, mislead authors, and make it harder to distinguish credible research from inadequately reviewed work.
- Researchers without institutional support or promotion resources may struggle to make useful work discoverable. This can delay recognition and downstream use; it does not mean all subsequent work on the same topic becomes unpublishable. The founder discusses this concern under the term scientific coveries.
- This creates the situation of “missing components” in science. In rare cases, a neglected enabling result may block many downstream developments and therefore have disproportionate value. Determining whether a particular result has that role requires independent technical evidence, a neglected detail may be of tremendous importance, just like as missing water in a desert may be priced as a billion dollars.
Consequences of stuck science
- Stuck science means stuck medicine, stuck climate, stuck air tickets price, stuck computer CPU and GPU improvements, the list can be continued. It means progress stuck for everyone, including you. If you want better future, support the AIIM project.
- An example of stuck science are ordered semigroup actions (OSA), that due to an unfortunate sequence of events stuck in kinda half-published state. You may not know what this means, but the project’s founder argues that ordered semigroup actions may provide a useful unifying framework in mathematics. Its broader practical importance has not yet been independently established.
- Now, before we unstuck science, resources are lost on scientific coveries in a great magnitude. Delayed recognition of useful research can impose substantial opportunity costs, although those costs are difficult to quantify and vary greatly by discovery. Degree and institutional requirements can create barriers for independent researchers. Doctoral study can involve substantial time and opportunity costs, but funding arrangements vary: for example, Princeton covers tuition and provides a stipend during regular PhD enrollment.
- Technology, probably, up to now was making this problem even worse.
What AIIM aims to improve
- AI Internet-Meritocracy explores allocating donated funds using AI-assisted assessments of documented contributions. Using AI does not guarantee fairness or resistance to manipulation. Misleading inputs, biased outputs, and administrative weaknesses are risks to evaluate through adversarial testing, human scrutiny, and comparison with other funding methods. NIST describes relevant generative-AI risks. Whether AIIM produces fairer outcomes remains an unproven hypothesis.
- At sufficient scale, AIIM could provide supplementary or primary funding to some researchers and FOSS developers underserved by conventional institutions. It also proposes incentives for science marketers to improve the visibility of useful work. These are goals, not guarantees that all work will be paid or every discovery adequately publicized.
Proposed spendings
See here for proposed money spendings.
Call to action
Supporting AIIM may appeal both to donors motivated by public benefit and to those interested in the long-term economic value of better science.
Project status
See this page for the status of developed/deployed software.
Support Independent Science
Our flagship product, AI Internet-Meritocracy, is an app (in the stage of open beta-testing) designed to allocate donated funds to researchers and open-source developers using AI-assisted evaluation of documented contributions. Payments depend on available funds and eligibility requirements.
Help fund the proposed five-month public test of AIIM’s allocation model with distribution of $1000 to real salary rece[p[ients. Support the next testing milestone.
Supporting independent science is not only a matter of fairness to researchers whose expertise and work are often underfunded. It is also essential for addressing systemic failures in scientific publishing that delay discoveries and leave important results unnoticed. In science and software, even one missing component can prevent an entire system from working.
Help valuable research and open-source infrastructure move forward. Please make a donation to support independent scientists and free software developers.
Disclaimer
Experimental-system notice: AI Internet-Meritocracy is an experimental funding system. Its AI-generated evaluations are heuristic judgments based on available public or connected-account evidence; they are not validated measurements of a person’s causal economic or scientific impact. Payment transactions are already recorded on-chain and can be verified on the blockchain. The current beta initiates payments off-chain through Node.js and uses custodial and administrative components. Decentralized governance and non-custodial wallets remain under development; on-chain payment records are already available. Evaluations may contain factual errors or biases and should be interpreted together with audit logs, appeals, human oversight, and published test results.
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