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How would you operationalize a contest for short-timeline plans?

Something like the OpenPhil AI worldview contest: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2023-open-philanthropy-ai-worldviews-contest/
Or the ARC ELK prize: https://www.alignment.org/blog/prizes-for-elk-proposals/

In general, I wouldn't make it too complicated and accept some arbitrariness. There is a predetermined panel of e.g. 5 experts and e.g. 3 categories (feasibility, effectiveness, everything else). All submissions first get scored by 2 experts with a shallow judgment (e.g., 5-10 minutes). Maybe there is some "saving" ... (read more)