I am still not able to capture the "altruistic behaviors" part of the contest. More specifically: What is considered as an altruistic behavior? How does the site describe it? Is there a geographical notion? Is there is a timeline? How many dimensions are we allowed to explore this? Is altruism restricted to the Homo Sapiens?
I have more to follow, but in essence this notion is a bug that I am attempting to understand, both from the contest perspective and from the generic perspective.
EDIT: 'Grammatical' and 'Spelling' errors.
There's a full description with all the details on the website. Quoting (highlighting is mine):
...Situations where someone is dependent on someone else to help manage everyday life are very common. We can see these situations in bringing up a child, in the support of individuals with functional disorders, support of family members with special care needs, and in the care of elderly relatives. The care demand varies case by case, but when the dependency increases the burden of the carer increases as well. It is a situation where you cannot choose, you have t
A challenge recently posted on Innocentive seemed to me like something that may interest many LWers: "Models Motivating and Supporting Altruism Within Communities", with a grand prize of $8000. To quote from the challenge:
Further details are available on innocentive.com. I think that it would be a nice opportunity for our LW decision theory experts.
[For anybody who decides to participate: the links I provided contain a referral string so that, in case you win a prize, I can match your donation to the SIAI with the same fraction of my referral award ;) Please use them to register.]