"Going back to Science.  In answer to the suggestion about getting the smartest people to organize Science! - that follows automatically from offering huge payouts for discoveries that people are sufficiently interested in.  Smart people, being smart, will go where the money is; even Good smart people will go where the money is, usually, because that's what Civilization is saying it cares about."

"Also to be clear, if you discover something that nobody even thought to ask for or expect, plenty of 'utility-buyers' will show up and pay for the 'impact' on that, too; Civilization has done that many times before, because it's important to be consistent and predictable about that sort of thing.  I'll be aspiring to do the same on this Project, which is all that Golarion has of Science! for a time."

"Standardization of measures... I'm not sure what it would mean for something to be a 'measure' that wasn't 'standardized', but, this being Golarion, I'm afraid to ask.  Yes, if you measure something in dath ilan, you would report on that in the same units as everyone else in Civilization uses.  Otherwise people wouldn't build on your results, and that would decrease the amount of 'impact' you got paid for."

"Going back to Science.  In answer to the suggestion about getting the smartest people to organize Science! - that follows automatically from offering huge payouts for discoveries that people are sufficiently interested in.  Smart people, being smart, will go where the money is; why would they want to be paid less per amount of effort?  Even Good smart people will usually go where the money is, because that's what Civilization is showing it cares about."

"Also to be clear, if you discover something important that nobody even thought to ask for or expect, plenty of 'utility-buyers' will show up and pay for the 'impact' on that, too; Civilization has done that many times before, because it's important to be consistent and predictable about that sort of thing.  I'll be aspiring to do the same on this Project, which is all that Golarion has of Science! for a time."

"Standardization of measures... I'm not sure what it would mean for something to be a 'measure' that wasn't 'standardized', but, this being Golarion, I'm afraid to ask.  Yes, if you measure something in dath ilan, you would report on that in the same units as everyone else in Civilization uses.  Otherwise people wouldn't build on your results, and that would decrease the amount of 'impact' you got paid for."

"Going back to Science.  In answer to the suggestion about getting the smartest people to organize Science! - that follows automatically from offering huge payouts for discoveries that people are sufficiently interested in.  Smart people, being smart, will go where the money is; why would they want to be paid less per amount of effort?  Even Good smart people will usually go where the money is, because that's what Civilization is saying it cares about."

"Also to be clear, if you discover something important that nobody even thought to ask for or expect, plenty of 'utility-buyers' will show up and pay for the 'impact' on that, too; Civilization has done that many times before, because it's important to be consistent and predictable about that sort of thing.  I'll be aspiring to do the same on this Project, which is all that Golarion has of Science! for a time."

"Standardization of measures... I'm not sure what it would mean for something to be a 'measure' that wasn't 'standardized', but, this being Golarion, I'm afraid to ask.  Yes, if you measure something in dath ilan, you would report on that in the same units as everyone else in Civilization uses.  Otherwise people wouldn't build on your results, and that would decrease the amount of 'impact' you got paid for."