"I was, and in particular about how Science! gets paid-for by Civilization collectively.  Something like the long-standing Quest for Safe Bisexuality Enhancement is not likely to get completed by one person; even the whole corporation that invents it will be building off the work of dozens of other researchers.  The commitment I made doesn't get paid out just to whatever corporation invents the treatment; it goes to one of several extremely reputable philanthropic-redistribution groups that would, after the pill got invented, pay out to purchase the 'impact' of whoever had turned out to contribute the most to getting it done."

"With a genuinely massive bounty like that, there's multiple 'venture-philanthropists' who are playing a multi-decade game of funding promising scientists to work on related investigations in exchange for a portion of their 'impact', and then reselling the 'impact' of people who made discoveries that will plausibly be worth hundreds of thousands of gold pieces later if Safe Bisexuality Enhancement gets invented with their work having contributed 0.1% of what got done."

"That infrastructure is too sophisticated for Golarion in its present state.  The key point is that, like everything else in life, if you want good Science! you've got to pay for it, and 'What you're not willing to pay real money for, you shouldn't complain you didn't get', as the proverb goes out of dath ilan."

"What we'll do on the Project instead is as follows:  If you come up with a truly unique and brilliant idea for refining spellsilver, and, this is the part I worry may end up generating 'drama' - emotional-fraughtness - it's not a brilliant idea that I strongly expect I or anybody else would've come up with anyways given another thirty minutes, you get a larger share of the Project."

"Where the issue here is that, especially once you're speaking the correct language of 'chemistry', there are going to be useful ideas that seem brilliant and that, in fact, anybody else who competently thinks in 'chemistry' language would probably also come up with given slightly more time, and we can't afford to give away 1% shares of the Project every time somebody has one of those ideas."

"I don't have anything better to do about that than appoint myself final judge, and go under truthspell on request to say that I'm being honest and impartial and honest about it.  Tap myself with the Fair Pricing spell, too, in case that also helps show the absence of rationalization and self-serving reasoning."

"I was, and in particular about how Science! gets paid-for by Civilization collectively.  Something like the long-standing Quest for Safe Bisexuality Enhancement is not likely to get completed by one person; even the whole corporation that invents it will be building off the work of dozens of other researchers.  The commitment I made doesn't get paid out just to whatever corporation invents the treatment; it goes to one of several extremely reputable philanthropic-redistribution groups that would, after the pill got invented, pay out to purchase the 'impact' of whoever had turned out to contribute the most to getting it done."

"With a genuinely massive bounty like that, there's multiple 'venture-philanthropists' who are playing a multi-decade game of funding promising scientists to work on related investigations in exchange for a portion of their 'impact', and then reselling the 'impact' of people who made discoveries that will plausibly be worth hundreds of thousands of gold pieces later if Safe Bisexuality Enhancement gets invented with their work having contributed 0.1% of what got done."

"That infrastructure is too sophisticated for Golarion in its present state.  The key point is that, like everything else in life, if you want good Science! you've got to pay for it, and 'What you're not willing to pay real money for, you shouldn't complain you didn't get', as the proverb goes out of dath ilan."

"What we'll do on the Project instead is as follows:  If you come up with a truly unique and brilliant idea for refining spellsilver, and, this is the part I worry may end up generating 'drama' - emotional-fraughtness - it's not a brilliant idea that I strongly expect I or anybody else would've come up with anyways given another thirty minutes, you get a larger share of the Project."

"Where the issue here is that, especially once you're speaking the correct language of 'chemistry', there are going to be useful ideas that seem brilliant and that, in fact, anybody else who competently thinks in 'chemistry' language would probably also come up with given slightly more time, and we can't afford to give away 1% shares of the Project every time somebody has one of those ideas."

"I don't have anything better to do about that than appoint myself final judge, and go under truthspell on request to say that I'm being honest and impartial and honest about it.  Tap myself with the Fair Pricing spell, too, in case that also helps show the absence of rationalization and self-serving reasoning.  In Civilization there'd be people who spend their whole adult work-lives just specializing in that one form of judgment."

"I was, and in particular about how Science! gets paid-for by Civilization collectively.  Something like the long-standing Quest for Safe Bisexuality Enhancement is not likely to get completed by one person; even the whole corporation that invents it will be building off the work of dozens of other researchers.  The commitment I made doesn't get paid out just to whatever corporation invents the treatment; it goes to one of several extremely reputable philanthropic-redistribution groups that would, after the pill got invented, pay out to purchase the 'impact' of whoever had turned out to contribute the most to getting it done."

"With a genuinely massive bounty like that, there's multiple 'venture-philanthropists' who are playing a multi-decade game of funding promising scientists to work on related investigations in exchange for a portion of their 'impact', and then reselling the 'impact' of people who made discoveries that will plausibly be worth hundreds of thousands of gold pieces later if Safe Bisexuality Enhancement gets invented with their work having contributed 0.1% of what got done."

"That infrastructure is too sophisticated for Golarion in its present state.  The key point is that, like everything else in life, if you want good Science! you've got to pay for it, and 'What you're not willing to pay real money for, you shouldn't complain you didn't get', as the proverb goes out of dath ilan."

"What we'll do on the Project instead is as follows:  If you come up with a truly unique and brilliant idea for refining spellsilver, and, this is the part I worry may end up generating 'drama' - emotional-fraughtness - it's not a brilliant idea that I strongly expect I or anybody else would've come up with anyways given another thirty minutes, you get a larger share of the Project."

"Where the issue here is that, especially once you're speaking the correct language of 'chemistry', there are going to be useful ideas that seem brilliant and that, in fact, anybody else who competently thinks in 'chemistry' language would probably also come up with given slightly more time, and we can't afford to give away 1% shares of the Project every time somebody has one of those ideas."

"I don't have anything better to do about that than appoint myself final judge, and go under truthspell on request to say that I'm being honest and impartial about it.  Tap myself with the Fair Pricing spell, too, in case that also helps show the absence of rationalization and self-serving reasoning.  In Civilization there'd be people who spend their whole adult work-lives just specializing in that one form of judgment."

"I was, and in particular about how Science! gets paid-for by Civilization collectively.  Something like the long-standing Quest for Safe Bisexuality Enhancement is not likely to get completed by one person; even the whole corporation that invents it will be building off the work of hundreds of other researchers.  The commitment I made doesn't get paid out just to whatever corporation invents the treatment; it goes to one of several extremely reputable philanthropic-redistribution groups that would, after the pill got invented, pay out to purchase the 'impact' of whoever had turned out to contribute the most to getting it done."

"With a genuinely massive bounty like that, there's multiple 'venture-philanthropists' who are playing a multi-decade game of funding promising scientists to work on related investigations in exchange for a portion of their 'impact', and then reselling their shares of 'impact' of people who made discoveries that will plausibly be worth hundreds of thousands of gold pieces later, if Safe Bisexuality Enhancement gets invented with their work having contributed 0.1% of what got done."

"That infrastructure is too sophisticated for Golarion in its present state.  The key point is that, like everything else in life, if you want good Science! you've got to pay for it.  'What you're not willing to pay real money for, you shouldn't complain you didn't get', as the proverb goes out of dath ilan."

"What we'll do on the Project instead is as follows:  If you come up with a truly unique and brilliant idea for refining spellsilver, and, this is the part I worry may end up generating 'drama' - emotional-fraughtness - it's not a brilliant idea that I strongly expect I or anybody else would've come up with anyways given another thirty minutes, you get a larger share of the Project."

"Where the issue here is that, especially once you're speaking the correct language of 'chemistry', there are going to be useful ideas that seem brilliant and that, in fact, anybody else who competently thinks in 'chemistry' language would probably also come up with given slightly more time, and we can't afford to give away 1% shares of the Project every time somebody has one of those ideas."

"I don't have anything better to do about that than appoint myself final judge, and go under truthspell on request to say that I'm being honest and impartial about it.  Tap myself with the Fair Pricing spell, too, in case that also helps show the absence of rationalization and self-serving reasoning.  In Civilization there'd be people who spend their whole adult work-lives just specializing in that one form of judgment."

"I was, and in particular about how Science! gets paid-for by Civilization collectively.  Something like the long-standing Quest for Safe Bisexuality Enhancement is not likely to get completed by one person; even the whole corporation that invents it will be building off the work of hundreds of other researchers.  The commitment I made doesn't get paid out just to whatever corporation invents the treatment; it goes to one of several extremely reputable philanthropic-redistribution groups that would, if Safe Bisexuality Enhancement got invented, pay out to purchase the 'impact' of whoever had turned out to contribute the most to getting it done."

"With a genuinely massive bounty like that, there's multiple 'venture-philanthropists' who are playing a multi-decade game of funding promising scientists to work on related investigations in exchange for a portion of their 'impact', and then reselling their shares of 'impact' of people who made discoveries that will plausibly be worth hundreds of thousands of gold pieces later, if Safe Bisexuality Enhancement gets invented with their work having contributed 0.1% of what got done."

"That infrastructure is too sophisticated for Golarion in its present state.  The key point is that, like everything else in life, if you want good Science! you've got to pay for it.  'What you're not willing to pay real money for, you shouldn't complain you didn't get', as the proverb goes out of dath ilan."

"What we'll do on the Project instead is as follows:  If you come up with a truly unique and brilliant idea for refining spellsilver, and, this is the part I worry may end up generating 'drama' - emotional-fraughtness - it's not a brilliant idea that I strongly expect I or anybody else would've come up with anyways given another thirty minutes, you get a larger share of the Project."

"Where the issue here is that, especially once you're speaking the correct language of 'chemistry', there are going to be useful ideas that seem brilliant and that, in fact, anybody else who competently thinks in 'chemistry' language would probably also come up with given slightly more time, and we can't afford to give away 1% shares of the Project every time somebody has one of those ideas."

"I don't have anything better to do about that than appoint myself final judge, and go under truthspell on request to say that I'm being honest and impartial about it.  Tap myself with the Fair Pricing spell, too, in case that also helps show the absence of rationalization and self-serving reasoning.  In Civilization there'd be people who spend their whole adult work-lives just specializing in that one form of judgment."