It boggles my mind that running a kickstarter campaign in association with the bioengineers behind this is beyond your capabilities, but pushing legislation through the political process is not. Either you know more about the difficulties of running a science kickstarter than I do, or you greatly underestimate the difficulty of securing taxpayer financing.
you greatly underestimate the difficulty of securing taxpayer financing.
At a first step the goal isn’t directly securing funding but pushing the idea out to be public knowledge. Signing a petition has a lower barrier to entry then giving money for a kickstarter campaign.
It might very well be that after having invested month in the project no parliament shows any interest in funding it. I wouldn’t expect to get results that fast.
It might very well be that through the process enough capable individuals get interested in the project and the correct action is to run a kickstarter in a year.
Maybe it could be that it makes sense for the Swiss effective altruism folks to push the project as a Swiss referendum.
There no strong commitment on long term strategy by starting with petitions.
It boggles my mind that running a kickstarter campaign in association with the bioengineers behind this is beyond your capabilities, but pushing legislation through the political process is not. Either you know more about the difficulties of running a science kickstarter than I do, or you greatly underestimate the difficulty of securing taxpayer financing.
At a first step the goal isn’t directly securing funding but pushing the idea out to be public knowledge. Signing a petition has a lower barrier to entry then giving money for a kickstarter campaign.
It might very well be that after having invested month in the project no parliament shows any interest in funding it. I wouldn’t expect to get results that fast.
It might very well be that through the process enough capable individuals get interested in the project and the correct action is to run a kickstarter in a year.
Maybe it could be that it makes sense for the Swiss effective altruism folks to push the project as a Swiss referendum.
There no strong commitment on long term strategy by starting with petitions.