I'm interested in how different people approach the impossible.
Ask HN: What is your save-the-world project?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your save-the-world project?
#2Somleng (https://www.somleng.org/case_studies.html) is my Open Source project which is helping to save lives and improve the lives of children around the world. It's being used to power Early Warning Systems as well as improve maternal health.
Re: Ask HN: What is your save-the-world project?
#3I wrote a short essay about using a little known economic system to combat black ball technologies in Nick Bostrom's sense.
I keep it online now, even though I have since developed some private criticisms of it, because of the wide variety of ideas it has sparked from others.
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Re: Ask HN: What is your save-the-world project?
#4An operating system with a new security/distribution model based upon direct connections via sockets. Be social online without third party servers. No walled gardens or content restrictions and it’s really challenging to violate your own privacy. Imagine a world where your online expression is unlimited and web servers are obsolete.
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#5I’m (slowly) working on a everyone-can-develop type of a project. Instead of being low/no code, it focuses on development accessibility for regular people who think like humans, not developers. The goal is to generally push the bar down. Three key features. Accessible business-level interfaces. Every function call is a self-documenting gui wizard. Little to no distinction between saved and shipped. Idk about the world, but I’m doing it for multiple people I’ve met before who would benefit from being able to program, but not from becoming “a developer”.
Re: Ask HN: What is your save-the-world project?
#6I was recently hired to build an AI alignment system. But first we are doing human-human alignment/coordination. It involves prediction markets.
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#7Humans are the only species with a concept of waste.
We're on a mission to end landfills, by providing a new moment for brands to connect with customers.
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#8Humans are the only species with a concept of waste. We're on a mission to end landfills, by providing a new moment for brands to connect with customers. https://replenysh.com/blog-posts/an-opportunity-to-evolve
I like the spirit of this idea, but I have no idea what you actually are trying to do. That blog post is 90% philosophy, 10% vague talk about having brands collect their own waste, and I have no idea how that is supposed to work. Are you saying brands will buy back and recycle their own waste? And somehow that will decrease the problem of collecting waste?
I'm not saying that the mission is wrong, I'm just not connecting the dots at all on how you are proposing to fix it.
Re: Ask HN: What is your save-the-world project?
#9Bitcoin mining without energy spendings but not PoS.
Re: Ask HN: What is your save-the-world project?
#10Shepherd.com, shift soft culture toward a respect of complexity and advocacy for science, democracy, and other key attributes for civilization and well being.