To me the world looks like there are many problems on which can be worked productively. Most of them are not in the prime focus of the existing academic communities.
I’m sometimes even surprised that problems that seem easily approachable don’t get studied. Scott wrote in his latest Melatonin post that there are good reasons to expect it to be useful to take Melatonin right after waking up for people who wake up to early.
You don’t need a first-rate scientist to run a study to investigate that phenomena.
The current evidence base suggests that taking Zinc on the first day of developing common flue reduce the length of the flue. However nobody went around to run studies to determine the correct amount of zinc that should be taken for that purpose.
Given the anecdotal evidence we have that taking Vitamin D3 in the morning instead of the evening is better for sleep it would be very useful if someone would run a study to investigate the phenomena.
Eliezer’s idea of treating SAD with a higher amount of daylight lamps isn’t studied by any scientist.
Those four problems can easily be approached by second-rate scientists and would all have the potential of significant positive impact.
To me the world looks like there are many problems on which can be worked productively. Most of them are not in the prime focus of the existing academic communities.
I’m sometimes even surprised that problems that seem easily approachable don’t get studied. Scott wrote in his latest Melatonin post that there are good reasons to expect it to be useful to take Melatonin right after waking up for people who wake up to early.
You don’t need a first-rate scientist to run a study to investigate that phenomena.
The current evidence base suggests that taking Zinc on the first day of developing common flue reduce the length of the flue. However nobody went around to run studies to determine the correct amount of zinc that should be taken for that purpose.
Given the anecdotal evidence we have that taking Vitamin D3 in the morning instead of the evening is better for sleep it would be very useful if someone would run a study to investigate the phenomena.
Eliezer’s idea of treating SAD with a higher amount of daylight lamps isn’t studied by any scientist.
Those four problems can easily be approached by second-rate scientists and would all have the potential of significant positive impact.