In addition to things with long time horizons, it makes sense to look at things that have little profit-incentive for startups or companies to work on.<p>One example would be nutritional supplements. It&#x27;s fairly expensive to do a good nutritional study, and there&#x27;s no good way to make money off of the results (since companies can&#x27;t patent supplements). So, no one funds good studies on supplements.<p>At the same time, finding out that certain supplements have positive or negative effects would be great for humanity as a whole.<p>This also goes for nutrition in general, though supplements are easier to research.