🧩 Philosophy Jun 10, 2026 · Robin Hanson

Biotech Paper Game

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Biotech Paper Game
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Imagine a biotech firm that funds projects to develop new products, and typically bases their projects on one or more academic papers. This firm wants to learn which papers are promising as bases for new projects. But they want any info they induce to be available only to them, and not to rivals.Here’s a simple way to do this. Pick a pool of people who seem able to judge promising papers, and give them each N tokens. (Some may get more than others, and tokens might be given at some steady

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