Therefore, funders need to accept a high level of initial risk and be prepared to fund for some time before the highly effective label can be achieved.
Yep, I agree that this is the rub. There’s been a lot of chat about megaprojects recently though (e.g. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ckcoSe3CS2n3BW3aT/), and building an ecosystem to fund high risk, high return projects of this sort could be a good candidate for that.
Yep, I agree that this is the rub. There’s been a lot of chat about megaprojects recently though (e.g. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ckcoSe3CS2n3BW3aT/), and building an ecosystem to fund high risk, high return projects of this sort could be a good candidate for that.