Request for Startups
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Request for Startups
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#2https://f3.to/cellsol/ Here's your "resilience" thing at least partially solved :)
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#3Someone need to make a platform that allows you to rank different types of animals (monkeys for example). Could use AI/linear regression to choose the winner.
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#4"Consensus on need, no consensus on action. Why are there problems that a majority find important but aren’t incentivized or paid to work on (e.g. why does it take so long and so much energy for negative externalities such as climate change to be recognized and regulated)? The tempting default seems to be inaction when there is a consensus on need but no consensus on approach."
This is so true, and it's crazy how simple some of these solutions could be. For many things, it's a matter of pricing in negative externalities into the cost of products. Like for example a sugar tax for unhealthy foods or increasing the price of gas by estimating the environmental offset. Naval said it pretty well on: https://nav.al/externalities
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#5"Consensus on need, no consensus on action. Why are there problems that a majority find important but aren’t incentivized or paid to work on (e.g. why does it take so long and so much energy for negative externalities such as climate change to be recognized and regulated)? The tempting default seems to be inaction when there is a consensus on need but no consensus on approach." This is so true, and it's crazy how sim…
But these are mandated by governments. In many cases, governments are interested and sometimes whole nations' existence is dependent on climate change NOT being addressed...
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#6Is there a word for the feeling that comes up (in some) when reading such a list and having too many ideas so none of them will ever happen?
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#7On ads: the fundamental problem with them is that most people don't realize that they are paying for digital content and free social services anyway, albeit indirectly, since the ad spendings are included in the prices of consumer products. Even if you use an ad blocker you pay for the ads you don't see anyway.
In fact the more we use free social platforms and digital content, the more we pay for it from our pockets. On top of that, we also enrich the platforms themselves, that is the middleman. See that $100 billion revenue figure for Google alone? That's also us, the consumer's money.
So one opportunity for disruption is I think targeting the middleman, i.e. the platforms. You can offer cheaper ads to the advertisers by being more efficient than Google that burns absurd amounts of money on their mostly awkward and useless "moonshot" projects.
I think you can in principle be more efficient than Facebook too, by employing 100x less engineers if you focus on one task and do it well.
In other words, the problem of "killing" Google or Facebook doesn't necessarily mean building literally alternatives to their products, but rather by creating more efficient advertisement platforms. Pick whatever method of keeping the users' eyes on the screens and be less greedy, more efficient.
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#8On ads: the fundamental problem with them is that most people don't realize that they are paying for digital content and free social services anyway, albeit indirectly, since the ad spendings are included in the prices of consumer products. Even if you use an ad blocker you pay for the ads you don't see anyway. In fact the more we use free social platforms and digital content, the more we pay for it from our pockets.…
>ad spendings are included in the prices of consumer products
No ads and no price haggling are big reasons why Tesla is so popular.
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#9On ads: the fundamental problem with them is that most people don't realize that they are paying for digital content and free social services anyway, albeit indirectly, since the ad spendings are included in the prices of consumer products. Even if you use an ad blocker you pay for the ads you don't see anyway. In fact the more we use free social platforms and digital content, the more we pay for it from our pockets.…
>ad spendings are included in the prices of consumer products No ads and no price haggling are big reasons why Tesla is so popular.
Apple too
Also, the lack of options. It's much easier to buy from Apple or Tesla (even though I don't use any Apple products except a Mac Mini), simply because the number of options are less. At this point, I don't know the difference between a Vostro, a Latitude and an XPS.
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#10Is there a word for the feeling that comes up (in some) when reading such a list and having too many ideas so none of them will ever happen?
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