Strategy
Our giving model derives from our core mission as an institute: increase the efficacy of researchers and policymakers towards key grand challenge problems. Our core initial focus in this regard is on rationality education in the form of a web application itself occurring in two phases: (1) focusing on users learning by reading written content, and (2) the combination of this with quizzes and games to improve and measure comprehension.
Beyond this core initial focus on a rationality education application we endeavor to expand primarily in regard to the marshalling of a community to collaboratively work on the challenge problems directly.
Core Funding
Our plan is to fund our rationality education application development and operation through user subscriptions at a wide range of levels to suit everyone’s interest and comfort. Users will have the opportunity to choose between a student-level subscription at (at $1/mo.), a user-level subscription (on the order of $8/mo.), a supporter-level subscription (on the order of $80/mo.), or a donor-level subscription (on the order of $800/mo.). As noted, revenue from these will go towards building, operating, maintaining, and improving the core application these users will themselves regularly benefit from using.
Advanced Projects
Our strategy to fund more advanced projects is through partnerships, grants, and contracts with larger entities that see an overlap in interests with our mission. These projects will all begin with a 3 - 12mo. pilot phase and graduate to longer-term projects depending on outcomes and traction. Here we will endeavor to decouple individuals advancement from the success of specific approaches and instead motivate fast adaptation of strategy to maximize the chance of making a useful contribution in one of the challenge areas.
These projects will further be governed by a rich panel of success metrics that inform researchers and partners in regard to the efficacy of our ongoing work.
Next Steps
As described above, the bar to becoming a donor is low. If you’re plausibly interested you can start by subscribing at an intermediate or low level to further get an intuitive feel for the usefulness of this kind of research. Then, depending on your assessment, consider increasing your donation to one of the larger recurring contribution levels.
Early in 2021 we will begin fundraising for our more advanced applied research projects. You can be notified by signing up for our newsletter which can be configured from the settings page.
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