I really want a How To Solve Common Life Problems wiki. Usually when people have a Common Life Problem (not sleeping well, depressed, no motivation, whatever) they ask someone for help, they get a suggestion or two, and none of them work because people are weird and idiosyncratic.
However, I suspect the problem is not “people are totally weird and nothing generalizes” but “people are pretty weird and *two* things rarely generalize”. If we increased the volume of suggestions (to 10? 20?), I bet that list would solve the problem for >50% of people who have it.*
Plus if you stick everything in one place you can do cool things like let people approval vote on solutions that seemed to work for them**, and then display the top 5/10/20.
Obviously there are issues. How do you keep out trolls, how do you distinguish between similar problems (e.g. ”I can’t sleep” and “I can’t sleep because there’s loud noise” and “I can’t sleep because of light pollution”), how do you distinguish between similar solutions / prevent the most generic solution from always being the highest voted.
* Even if it’s much less than 50% it may still be worth. What does n need to be such that if you can solve a problem for n% of the population by building a webpage, then building the webpage is worth it?
here is a how to solve common life problems wiki. deposit worldly knowledge below if you wanna. this might save humans redundant thought cycles. i put .3 on this helping more than 10 people with at least one life problem after 60 days. [ https://predictionbook.com/predictions/188640 ]
wiki:
[ http://bring-me-to-life.wikia.com/wiki/Common_life_problems_Wiki ]
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#interesting idea #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #I am terrible at starting conversations #but I might be able to contribute solutions if somebody else provides problems? #not sure
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