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Edo Arad's avatar

30 years down the line, we could also grant monetary prizes or shares from relevant future patents. In this case, the researcher could sell her future option to get the prize money, so that there will be some sort of market with direct incentive to publish important results.

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This seems better for figuring out what the ideal allocation of prestige would be. But it's not clear that it has plausible deniability: it might be too obvious that we're following prestige, whereas we'd probably rather say we were doing something more prosocial.

I suppose you imagine the "should-have-been prestige-rank" would just be described in terms of the qualities its evaluated on (influence, counterfactual influence if people paid attention ...), rather than explicitly stating that it's about prestige? Are there particular framings that best veil the prestige function of the measure?

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