Paying people to contribute to open-source software projects. Sometimes, I’m using a software package, wish it had a certain feature, but don’t care enough to fix it myself or to pay somebody else to fix it. It would be nice if there were a kickstarter-type mechanism to make things like this happen. A similar example would be working to make reciprocity (a dating site many people in my social circle use) better. [In fact, I’m surprised that it doesn’t happen more on Kickstarter. But you don’t want exactly that platform, since project proposal should probably be on the consumer side.]
Getting community trials of various potential nootropics to happen, e.g. Paul Christiano’s proposal of replicating a study of the cognitive benefits of creatine among vegetarians.
Paying people to contribute to open-source software projects. Sometimes, I’m using a software package, wish it had a certain feature, but don’t care enough to fix it myself or to pay somebody else to fix it. It would be nice if there were a kickstarter-type mechanism to make things like this happen. A similar example would be working to make reciprocity (a dating site many people in my social circle use) better. [In fact, I’m surprised that it doesn’t happen more on Kickstarter. But you don’t want exactly that platform, since project proposal should probably be on the consumer side.]
Getting community trials of various potential nootropics to happen, e.g. Paul Christiano’s proposal of replicating a study of the cognitive benefits of creatine among vegetarians.