probably a self-serving fantasy
The Gwern price: Finding some attempts at long sites, and telling the creator "we'll pay you for one year to work on your site full-time, no strings attached, and afterwards see if we like what you did, and perhaps continue paying you"
because blog prizes are bad, even more so are prizes for starting a *new blog*. seriously. why. there's a bunch of people putting in really good work, and you could just scale their stuff up
probably a self-serving fantasy
and yeah, i'm talking about myself a bit, but also about many other people: dynomight, nintil, everything studies etc.