a non exhaustive list of ideas i'd love to see microgrant applications for:

• making the one true glorious interpretability (or alignment) metric so that when we have the number go up machine we can use it to solve interp (or alignment) (best so far is the ARC low probability estimation metric; but can we do better?)
• tech that enables verification of the glorious international treaty; policy advocacy for it
• fully interpreting the algzoo models, possibly using circuit sparsity techniques
• improving democratic decision making via sortition
• studying generalization in humans. when do humans generalize from some task to some other task, and how much?
• better rationality techniques/frames. eg emotionally intelligent frames of rationality.
• making prediction markets better, especially for AI questions
• making really good ai safety educational resources on youtube/tiktok (being the next rob miles)
• biosafety - eg proving safety of far UVC or making it cheaper, wastewater pathogen monitoring, etc
• inoculating society against superpersuasion
• improving mental health of alignment researchers