Thank you for this great post. In the past I have looked for such platforms and concepts, but was unaware of the term ‘inducement prize’ and did not find much.
Two extensions to the concept you presented could make it even more interesting, especially for the EA community. Firstly, rather than just requests being supplied to such a platform, offers to conduct e.g. research could be posted first by qualified researchers in order to gauge interest. Secondly, there is no reason why there couldn’t be several parties/individuals who pay the bounty collectively. Essentially, this would be a “reverse kickstarter” use case, where payment is made after completion rather than in the beginning.
It seems that there a lot of potential projects in the community with distributed interest and willingness-to-pay : literature reviews, evaluations of possible cause areas, research into personal Covid-19 risks etc.
Thank you for this great post. In the past I have looked for such platforms and concepts, but was unaware of the term ‘inducement prize’ and did not find much.
Two extensions to the concept you presented could make it even more interesting, especially for the EA community. Firstly, rather than just requests being supplied to such a platform, offers to conduct e.g. research could be posted first by qualified researchers in order to gauge interest. Secondly, there is no reason why there couldn’t be several parties/individuals who pay the bounty collectively. Essentially, this would be a “reverse kickstarter” use case, where payment is made after completion rather than in the beginning.
It seems that there a lot of potential projects in the community with distributed interest and willingness-to-pay : literature reviews, evaluations of possible cause areas, research into personal Covid-19 risks etc.