you could find someone with a similar talent level … who could produce many more videos
It seems that the Long-Term Future Fund isn’t actively searching for people to do specific tasks, if I understand the post correctly. Instead, it’s reviewing applications that come to them. (It’s more labour-intensive to do an active search.) That means that it can be warranted to fund an applicant even if it’s possible that there could be better candidates for the same task somewhere out there. (Minor edits.)
Yes. Also, regarding this issue:
It seems that the Long-Term Future Fund isn’t actively searching for people to do specific tasks, if I understand the post correctly. Instead, it’s reviewing applications that come to them. (It’s more labour-intensive to do an active search.) That means that it can be warranted to fund an applicant even if it’s possible that there could be better candidates for the same task somewhere out there. (Minor edits.)