Hand out $5-10k small discretionary budgets to a handful of people and see what they do with it.
- Identify people for whom $5-10k would be a significant amount of money
- Issue them virtual credit cards? Or even physical ones?
Nanoregrantor
- on the EA forum: “Apply for a $500 credit card, to spend in the next 3 months, for stuff you think is important but don’t need a lot of money for”. Issue like 20 of these.
- Once you’ve spent the money, we’d ask you write up a paragraph on what you spent it on and why
Who?
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Offer to people we trust:
- Aaron Bergman
- Tetraspace
- Saul
- MatthewBarnett
- MichaelWheatley
- Carson Gale
- Lars Doucet
- Mira
- Trevor Klee
- Gwern
- Nathan Young
- Julia Wise & Jeff Kaufman
- Ozy Brennan
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See also Austin’s list of offbeat regrantors
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Offer to applicants that we liked who applied