I was thinking of applying… it’s a question I’m quite interested in. The deadline is the same as ICML tho!
I had an idea I will mention here:
funding pools:
You and your friends whose values and judgement you trust and who all have small-scale funding requests join together.
A potential donor evaluates one funding opportunity at random, and funds all or none of them on the basis of that evaluation.
You have now increased the ratio of funding / evaluation available to a potential donor by a factor of #projects
There is an incentive for you to NOT include people in your pool if you think their proposal is quite inferior to yours… however, you might be incentivized to include somewhat inferior proposals in order to reach a threshold where the combined funding opportunity is large enough to attract more potential donors.
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I was thinking of applying… it’s a question I’m quite interested in. The deadline is the same as ICML tho!
I had an idea I will mention here: funding pools:
You and your friends whose values and judgement you trust and who all have small-scale funding requests join together.
A potential donor evaluates one funding opportunity at random, and funds all or none of them on the basis of that evaluation.
You have now increased the ratio of funding / evaluation available to a potential donor by a factor of #projects
There is an incentive for you to NOT include people in your pool if you think their proposal is quite inferior to yours… however, you might be incentivized to include somewhat inferior proposals in order to reach a threshold where the combined funding opportunity is large enough to attract more potential donors.
Awesome, excited to see you flesh out your thinking and submit!