>what do you want?
Mostly wanted to describe what has been tried before so that maybe someone else can try something smarter in the future. There’s so many misaligned incentives and problems that it’s hard to know where to start and it’s nice to have a place to put these thoughts down in a productive manner.
I guess I was looking for emotional support and got it; thank you. I imagine that my emotions have similarities to that of people who work on friendly AI.
There’s not much else to say that isn’t said better elsewhere (woes of American healthcare, coordination problems, the LW sequences, the way brains think of other people, utilions, heroic responsibility, ambiguous delegation of duties, dissemination and usage of knowledge, etc.).
In closing, a passage from chapter 109 of HPMOR feels appropriate.
The aspect I found interesting was that … the rest of Atlantis ignored this project and went upon their ways. It was sometimes praised as a noble public endeavor, but nearly all other Atlanteans found more important things to do on any given day than help. … With relatively little support, the tiny handful of would-be makers of this device labored under working conditions that were not so much dramatically arduous, as pointlessly annoying. Eventually time ran out and Atlantis was destroyed with the device still far from complete.
The Ralphs (aka The Kroger Company) and Vons (aka Albertsons Companies, Inc.) supermarket chains allow you to direct some money to a charity of your choosing. Traditionally, that meant you could donate to a school district.
While the current list of charities isn’t great, I was able to find a review of KIPP at GiveWell so I send the money their way.