ajtrns

how common is murder?

Do you have any experience with "appropriate technology"? You could probably contribute a lot to, say, the be-all end-all human-powered washing machine -- going beyond the awesome things you've already done for woodshop tools and furniture. (Engineers Without Borders, Global Village Construction Set, Public Lab, Dave Hakkens, and many others...)

I am a healthy 30-year-old unemployed man doing nothing special with my life. Is there any use for me in humanitarian work? It costs about $1500/yr to feed me in the US, probably less elsewhere. Otherwise I require almost nothing else to keep me going except useful work.

Or do you have plenty of professionals and cash with which to pay them, local volunteers already in abundance, no shortage of labor?

there are some geoengineering techniques that a "rogue" rich person, company, or country could try. do you have a list of these techniques?

Jimmy Wales, you've shepherded wikipedia into a mature information collaboration tool. Democracy is a related platform for selecting group actions, allocation of resources, and reaching consensus. Can you engineer the bugs out of US democracy? It appears they are being exploited mercilessly right now.

Do you have any insights into making an end-run around our current systematic flaws -- such as through ubiquitous political transparency, live voting from the whole populace, cultivating a dedicated core of curators to manage random contributions from everyone, etc?