I have been thinking that one solution to this could be people self-organizing and spending more of their off-time and casual hours working on these issues in self-organizing or crowd-sourced ways. Would be really curious to hear what your thoughts are on such an approach. I feel like there is enough funding that if people were able to collectively produce something promising, then this could really go somewhere. I have thought a lot about what kind of organizational structures would allow this;
Something like a weekly group meeting where people bring their best ideas and then discuss them and iteratively work on developing project ideas, media, research, and anything that could be high impact. Kind of like the EA Fellowship or other fellowships like Blue Dot and the Astra Fellowship, except for more decentralized and project-focused, and then having a coordination mechanism coordinating between the different groups in order to funnel the best projects from all of the groups to the top.
I have a pretty elaborate mechanism I designed in the past related to this for something else. But seems like it could work well here too. Don’t really have time to work on this myself that much right now. Perhaps unless I could get funding myself, which is ironically my own bottleneck I am primarily focused on right now.
But again, would be very curious to hear your thoughts on this kind of approach.
I have been thinking that one solution to this could be people self-organizing and spending more of their off-time and casual hours working on these issues in self-organizing or crowd-sourced ways. Would be really curious to hear what your thoughts are on such an approach. I feel like there is enough funding that if people were able to collectively produce something promising, then this could really go somewhere. I have thought a lot about what kind of organizational structures would allow this;
Something like a weekly group meeting where people bring their best ideas and then discuss them and iteratively work on developing project ideas, media, research, and anything that could be high impact. Kind of like the EA Fellowship or other fellowships like Blue Dot and the Astra Fellowship, except for more decentralized and project-focused, and then having a coordination mechanism coordinating between the different groups in order to funnel the best projects from all of the groups to the top.
I have a pretty elaborate mechanism I designed in the past related to this for something else. But seems like it could work well here too. Don’t really have time to work on this myself that much right now. Perhaps unless I could get funding myself, which is ironically my own bottleneck I am primarily focused on right now.
But again, would be very curious to hear your thoughts on this kind of approach.