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Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods
Dwarkesh Podcast
The Advantages of Prizes in the Current Context
I think one advantage of the prize in the current context is it's easy to explain to Congress. And this has been an incredible frustration to me that Congress has been so lazy, so slow. They're not doing anything. It took them ages to set up funding for testing and then they said the funding and they haven't spent the money. So it's just incredibly frustrating. I thought a prize because you can announce it even before you've gathered the funds or figured out who's going to be on the prize committee"
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