Dustin, I’m pleased that you seriously considered the proposal. I do think that it could be worth funding deeper research into this (assuming you haven’t done this already) - both ‘should we expect better outcomes if funding decisions were made more democratically?’ and ‘if we were coming up with a system to do this, how could we get around the problems you describe?’ One way to do this would be a sort of ‘adversarial collaboration’ between someone who is sceptical of the proposal and someone who’s broadly in favour.
Dustin, I’m pleased that you seriously considered the proposal. I do think that it could be worth funding deeper research into this (assuming you haven’t done this already) - both ‘should we expect better outcomes if funding decisions were made more democratically?’ and ‘if we were coming up with a system to do this, how could we get around the problems you describe?’ One way to do this would be a sort of ‘adversarial collaboration’ between someone who is sceptical of the proposal and someone who’s broadly in favour.