There can be more than one answer! The New York Marathon has a number of different selection criteria to handle different kinds of priorities: getting the worl

There can be more than one answer! The New York Marathon has a number of different selection criteria to handle different kinds of priorities: getting the world's fastest runners (qualifying marathon results), getting local runners (provide proof of residency), and raising money (let some people just buy their way in via auction). Here's a nice podcast on their system: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/03/793488868/episode-962-advanced-fairness-at-the-marathon https://www.npr.org/2020/01/03/793488868/episode-962-advance... But we could certainly imagine similar for research funding; different paths for rewarding known-good horses, innovative project ideas, etc.