There are definitely many coincidence of wants related problems, where someone has a good idea that someone would do or fund but that person never hears of it.
Very much agree with your points, this one in particular. I think in a perfect world we would all have a way of knowing of what others in the EA community are thinking about, working on and what they need help with. I’d love to have a way to share more openly (but without wasting other’s attention) what I’m focusing on so that others who think about similar things could be made aware of this opportunity for collaboration. But I don’t really know of any practical ways to achieve this. Write a forum post saying “Hey everyone I’m really interested in X recently and plan to spend the next 3 months diving into that topic”? Probably not.
EA G(X) could be helpful, because you can share your (current) interests in your profile on the networking app. And theoretically find others who mention the same keywords. But then swapcard comes along and doesn’t support proper searching, so I missed out on many potentially great relevant contacts. :( Plus of course it doesn’t happen all that often, and always contains only a relatively small subset of the community.
Very much agree with your points, this one in particular. I think in a perfect world we would all have a way of knowing of what others in the EA community are thinking about, working on and what they need help with. I’d love to have a way to share more openly (but without wasting other’s attention) what I’m focusing on so that others who think about similar things could be made aware of this opportunity for collaboration. But I don’t really know of any practical ways to achieve this. Write a forum post saying “Hey everyone I’m really interested in X recently and plan to spend the next 3 months diving into that topic”? Probably not.
EA G(X) could be helpful, because you can share your (current) interests in your profile on the networking app. And theoretically find others who mention the same keywords. But then swapcard comes along and doesn’t support proper searching, so I missed out on many potentially great relevant contacts. :( Plus of course it doesn’t happen all that often, and always contains only a relatively small subset of the community.