This could exclude competent evaluators without other income—this isn’t Dath Ilan, where a bank could evaluate evaluators and front them money at interest rates that depended on their probability of finding important risks—and their shortage of liquidity could provide a lever for distortion of their incentives.
On Earth, if someone’s working for you, and you’re not giving them a salary commensurate with the task, there’s a good chance they are getting compensation in other ways (some of which might be contrary to your goals).
Why not pay them nothing until they are shown to be correct with sufficiently credible proof, and then pay out a huge prize?
This could exclude competent evaluators without other income—this isn’t Dath Ilan, where a bank could evaluate evaluators and front them money at interest rates that depended on their probability of finding important risks—and their shortage of liquidity could provide a lever for distortion of their incentives.
On Earth, if someone’s working for you, and you’re not giving them a salary commensurate with the task, there’s a good chance they are getting compensation in other ways (some of which might be contrary to your goals).