<i>We’re building a community of creative young people working on interesting projects around the globe.</i><p>YOUNG people?! As a young-minded 40-something, I find this statement offensive. On the basis that I fully intend to live for at least another lifetime I've still got plenty of mileage left in me yet.<p>Why are companies obsessed with 'young people'? They know nothing, and have hardly any experience. Us 'slightly older people' are a way better bet.
So, if I understand the system correctly:<p>In the top 10, I see projects in Hardware, AI, Psychology, and Economics.<p>So, the psychology guy goes up the leaderboard by producing results that will impress the people in the other fields. The surest way to do this is to jump to conclusions and ignore everything about sound experiment design.<p>Similarly, the AI guy is incentivized to train the same neural net on a different game every week, and not to do anything new and risky.<p>Pardon me, but this does not sound like a good system.