I work at http://givelively.org for the same reasons. I want my work to be about more than making someone profit, so I work at a place that doesn't make profit. For what it's worth, the fact that the mission of your organization would be aligned with ours would certainly be very attractive to me as a hiring manager. I would furthermore be encouraged by the idea that your pool of candidates may also be of a similar mindset. Of course I am an exception. Most hiring managers may not see things the way I do. But nonetheless, I want to share my words of encouragement and I hope you'll reach out to me if you end up moving forward.
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Interesting read but too bad it is not practical for people don't work at albine (company making online privacy tools) and falls short of preventing your DNA code from being added to the large collection that is or will be used for whatever unknown purposes.
I managed to come upon a couple interesting pertinent articles. One about other, similar Kickstarter projects that turned out to be scammy[1]. And another article, written by the same journalist about scio[2].
Hopefully it wasn't a "Clever Hans" type of demonstration for the second one. IE, someone watching on camera and then manually entering data into the interface from a different room.
looks like the one part you said you might agree with in your very last sentence is 100% of the group that they were talking about: people who enjoy programming.
Actually, since I'm the author of the post they're referring to I can say that the group we're referring to is "programmers" or rather "people you'd hire as a programmer" which is a superset of "people who enjoy programming." Even if you only consider people who enjoy programming I'd be very careful about calling them "more intelligent". They're probably good solvers of a certain kind of logical puzzle, but intelligence encompasses much much more than that.
