Is it healthy to try and solve the MS 408

[ReneZ]

We do not live in a hypothetical world, but in a real one.

As soon as a prize is issued by any entity, this entity then has to set up a panel of some sort to decide when the prize can be handed out. This panel will immediately be bombarded by the likes of Gerard Cheshire, Ahmet Ardic, some people on this list, and quite a few more that most people on this list do not know much about. (And you are better off that way!)

The panel will then (probably) have to tell them that, no, that is not the right solution.

This is already not acceptable to these people in the present-day informal discussions, but guess what happens when a million dollars are at stake?

Overflowing mailboxes will be the smallest problem. Threats and law suits are entirely likely to follow.

And this is what would happen immediately, even before the prize money can start generating some incentive.
The tiny possibility of a positive impact from this incentive does not outweigh the massive problems that it creates.