Heh. Part of the reason I posted here was that Lesswrong is associated wtih CFAR. So I thought people would be more amenable to meta-improvement organisations. If people are interested in raising the sanity water-line of individuals, why not the sanity waterline of organizations? I see I was miscalibrated.
Zaines advice would most likely end up being a webapp of some flavour anyway :P The game would need to be multiplayer, no download required. And I may as well make it so the control market software in the game has an api and can be easily extracted from the game if people decide they want to use it in anger.
I will try and write more. But limited time will make it probably slip off my agenda in favour of coding.
Thanks for the feedback.
You might want to distinguish between the following two propositions.
"People here are not interested in raising the sanity waterline of organizations."
"People here don't see how your proposal for experimenting with 'control markets' is actually likely to do much to raise the sanity waterline of organizations."
It seems to me that you've had evidence for #2 and have concluded #1.
Or something like that1. As per this article on Control Markets I am looking to experiment with them. This requires an organization of some sort. This post is my first step to the creation of the organization.
My skills are in technology and not UI or people particularly. So I have mainly been doing what I know2, working around my day job.
So I decided it probably wasn't the best path, I was likely to get distracted and lose focus by myself. So other people would be useful.
There are three rough ways this can be attempted:
So what is possible with people from lesswrong? And which would people advise? Or is there a different way to attack this problem.
I've thought about kickstarter, but I don't think it is within the ToS. Also I would want a decent demo/visuals before trying this style of thing.
I suppose there is also.
1 I would want to use a kitty for a logo if we went with this name. This is probably why I shouldn't be allowed to make these sorts of decisions.
2 I've been noodling around with a django backend using tastypie to make a restful API, I was thinking about using AngularJS on the client (which I would need to learn). Still needs a lot of work. I also have a bad habit of wanting to make it highly available/scalable and other such things that aren't appropriate at this point.