This poll is to create a baseline about the past. Here is the context:
This is the repeat poll. There is a market asking about this poll's results.
1,000I think people awarding all kinds of grants, VC funding, scholarships and similar can be replaced by a semi-decent random number generator, let alone an AI.
Not joking or sarcastic btw, see e.g.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2018/04/should-research-funding-be-allocated-at.html
companies YCombinator or Techstars fund, excl. the initial batches
And that's for science / business where the applicant's paper profile is supposed to contain lots of signal
It's also ironic that fighting all kinds of DEI and similar is the hill I will gladly die on, but introducing randomness to various grant & hiring processes is something I support that would do more to help various groups advance than any virtue signalling leftist nonsense ever could.