Adding a bit of critique where appropriate seems good, since I’m the person who writes the summaries and can ask myself to put in more time.
Your other questions all come back to the black-box voting criterion, and I don’t push judges to share their individual reasoning. That’s largely because doing so makes being a judge more difficult; right now, voting is relatively little work, and given the small amounts of money at stake, I’m reluctant to ask for many more EA hours going toward the project).
We may consider splitting up the prize funding differently in the future; saying “piece X deserves four times as much money as piece Y” isn’t a good way to think about how the Prize works, but there’s still an argument for trying to more closely match grant funding to judges’ enthusiasm levels.
Adding a bit of critique where appropriate seems good, since I’m the person who writes the summaries and can ask myself to put in more time.
Your other questions all come back to the black-box voting criterion, and I don’t push judges to share their individual reasoning. That’s largely because doing so makes being a judge more difficult; right now, voting is relatively little work, and given the small amounts of money at stake, I’m reluctant to ask for many more EA hours going toward the project).
We may consider splitting up the prize funding differently in the future; saying “piece X deserves four times as much money as piece Y” isn’t a good way to think about how the Prize works, but there’s still an argument for trying to more closely match grant funding to judges’ enthusiasm levels.