I will vote up suggestions that estimate some utility function value for the proposed projects.
E.g. Lives saved per programmer hour or 10 −9 percentage points chance increase of a positive singularity .
Your reasoning can be indirect, e.g. a simple successful project will encourage future hackdays that can potentially reduce the chance of X existential risk by 0.01%.
I will vote up suggestions that estimate some utility function value for the proposed projects.
E.g. Lives saved per programmer hour or 10 −9 percentage points chance increase of a positive singularity .
Your reasoning can be indirect, e.g. a simple successful project will encourage future hackdays that can potentially reduce the chance of X existential risk by 0.01%.