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would people find an alignment microgrant program useful? handing out grants on the order of $10k with very minimal bureaucracy - a 15 minute application process and a 30 minute retrospective call 3 months down the line. is this a quantity of money that enough to matter at all? is overhead around grant applications actually a big issue? is there really good work that nobody is funding already?