>One of the hardest things about scaling human activity is figuring out what your goal functions should be. Marvin Minsky suggested a fairly reasonable solutio

>One of the hardest things about scaling human activity is figuring out what your goal functions should be. Marvin Minsky suggested a fairly reasonable solution to this problem based on his experience in the DARPA program during the 60s and 70s: give smart/accomplished people funding and then stand back and let them work out the rest. A decent amount of the funding will be wasted, but it's still better than the current system of jumping through hoops and appealing to the biases of the old guard in order to get grants.