"All should have some sort of verified performance feat far in excess of the listed educational attainment"

A relevant point, I'm debating adding that. The audience I'd had in mind when first putting this together was people trying to decide which courses, schools, or training would help them get into x-risk research. For that crowd, knowing who the prodigies are and what performance metrics they did well on what wouldn't be that useful. But I realize that there may be very young, very high-talent people reading a list like this and trying to decide where they should focus their efforts, and they might be interested in knowing others like them ended up in x-risk.