Given that x-risk is a specialist term, and this is a public outreach thing, that’s an argument for a more familiar term.
Brainstorm:
Disaster Tree
Tree of Fear and Hope
10,000 year tree
Future Tree
Possibility Tree
Future Garden
I don’t love any of these but maybe (6) is the best.
On (7): you could shift from tree to garden and then have roots for beautiful plants and dead plants, or something.
There are marketing people who specialise in naming. Since the name is so critical to the project, it might be worth hiring a world-class professional to help. There’s one guy I know personally (I’ll ask him and email you if he’s interested). Otherwise it’s possible that studiomast.co could help (I don’t know them, but someone at Founders Pledge recommended them for branding and visual identity).
Tree of Possible Futures Survival Tree Survival Map Our Future of Fire or Ashes Branches of Light and Darkness Branches of Life and Death Map of Cliffs and Crossings Tree of Paths Forward Navigating the Future Map of Futures Possible Worlds Tree (pun on Yggdrasil, the world tree) The Choices Before Us What Lies Ahead The Branches Of Time Our Branching Futures Hopes and Endings Tree of Tomorrows
I love Possible Worlds Tree! It’s aligned with the optimistic outlook, conveys the content better, and has a mythology pun. I couldn’t be happier. Messaging re: bounty!
Thoughts on naming:
Given that x-risk is a specialist term, and this is a public outreach thing, that’s an argument for a more familiar term.
Brainstorm:
Disaster Tree
Tree of Fear and Hope
10,000 year tree
Future Tree
Possibility Tree
Future Garden
I don’t love any of these but maybe (6) is the best.
On (7): you could shift from tree to garden and then have roots for beautiful plants and dead plants, or something.
There are marketing people who specialise in naming. Since the name is so critical to the project, it might be worth hiring a world-class professional to help. There’s one guy I know personally (I’ll ask him and email you if he’s interested). Otherwise it’s possible that studiomast.co could help (I don’t know them, but someone at Founders Pledge recommended them for branding and visual identity).
I was inspired to brainstorm by your list. 🙂
Tree of Possible Futures
Survival Tree
Survival Map
Our Future of Fire or Ashes
Branches of Light and Darkness
Branches of Life and Death
Map of Cliffs and Crossings
Tree of Paths Forward
Navigating the Future
Map of Futures
Possible Worlds Tree
(pun on Yggdrasil, the world tree)
The Choices Before Us
What Lies Ahead
The Branches Of Time
Our Branching Futures
Hopes and Endings
Tree of Tomorrows
I love Possible Worlds Tree! It’s aligned with the optimistic outlook, conveys the content better, and has a mythology pun. I couldn’t be happier. Messaging re: bounty!
Not sure about this one. Main concerns:
Too long
Most people don’t know the phrase possible worlds in the philosophy/logical sense. The more natural interpretation may be fine.
Overall my take is that “Possibility Tree” is better.
In other news I nearly wrote “Pissability Tree” here.
Of the other suggestions in the thread, I think Schubert’s “Tree of Hope” is the best.