Placing kits with helpful tools and information around the world in order to improve the chances of civilization recovery in the case of a 99.999% to 99.9999% population decrease (approx. 100K to 10K individuals alive).
Goals
Increasing chances of survival and successful civilization recovery
Preserving human knowledge
Enabling making contact quickly with more humans
Operations
Kits will be placed in well known places (e.g. libraries, museums, public transport stations, etc).
Items in the kit will be updated every X years (this will be funding bottlenecked)
Funding / Business Model
Option 1: Use EA funding
spread kits around the world
Option 2: Sell the kits
Maybe explicitly say something like “for each kit you buy, we’ll put another kit somewhere else in the world”.
Maybe sell a subscription where we send updates to existing kits periodically.
Open Source
Kit specification with all contents be publicly available and open source
A guide for making your own kit will be available
What will be in the kit?
Epistemic status: Initial idea exploration
These kits could include (incomplete list):
Information / Knowledge
Paper copy of Wikipedia
Paper map with more recovery kit locations
Tools
Manual electrical generator (e.g. with a hand crank)
Laptop with useful things:
Offline copy of Wikipedia
Select scientific textbooks
Important open source projects
Linux kernel
Math libraries
Scientific software
Offline world map
Ability to replicate laptop contents to other looted found computers
Radio transceiver
Maybe with instructions to extend range
Extras
Some candy to lighten the mood?
A collection of zombie games to “lighten the mood”
Side Notes
What about security / vandalism / premature looting?
A naïve solution (and which can probably be improved) is locking the box as long as there’s electricity. If you care about the security of this, more ideas welcome
More Operation Stuff
Kit updates are “append only” for existing kits
Digital content updates will be sent on physical media
Tools will be sent with a courier
The boxes may have an “insert only” opening to allow these updates without opening to box
More About Goals
This project is a bit different from previous discussions. I don’t want to be too opinionated about “How to recover”, the primary goal is knowledge preservation and let people figure out what to do with it.
This project is not aimed to help in all kinds of catastrophes.
Call To Action
Help me figure out how impactful this might be
Fix critical flaws in this idea
Open this project yourself and I’ll help with all the engineering
Convince me I should lead this project
(Maybe partner with me about this?)
Less Important call to action
Suggest updates to this list with other useful things
P.S. this idea came to me in a dream a few days after EAGx Berlin 2022, not sure what to do about that 🙃
Civilization Recovery Kits
TL;DR
Placing kits with helpful tools and information around the world in order to improve the chances of civilization recovery in the case of a 99.999% to 99.9999% population decrease (approx. 100K to 10K individuals alive).
Goals
Increasing chances of survival and successful civilization recovery
Preserving human knowledge
Enabling making contact quickly with more humans
Operations
Kits will be placed in well known places (e.g. libraries, museums, public transport stations, etc).
Items in the kit will be updated every X years (this will be funding bottlenecked)
Funding / Business Model
Option 1: Use EA funding
spread kits around the world
Option 2: Sell the kits
Maybe explicitly say something like “for each kit you buy, we’ll put another kit somewhere else in the world”.
Maybe sell a subscription where we send updates to existing kits periodically.
Open Source
Kit specification with all contents be publicly available and open source
A guide for making your own kit will be available
What will be in the kit?
Epistemic status: Initial idea exploration
These kits could include (incomplete list):
Information / Knowledge
Paper copy of Wikipedia
Paper map with more recovery kit locations
Tools
Manual electrical generator (e.g. with a hand crank)
Laptop with useful things:
Offline copy of Wikipedia
Select scientific textbooks
Important open source projects
Linux kernel
Math libraries
Scientific software
Offline world map
Ability to replicate laptop contents to other
lootedfound computersRadio transceiver
Maybe with instructions to extend range
Extras
Some candy to lighten the mood?
A collection of zombie games to “lighten the mood”
Side Notes
What about security / vandalism / premature looting?
A naïve solution (and which can probably be improved) is locking the box as long as there’s electricity. If you care about the security of this, more ideas welcome
More Operation Stuff
Kit updates are “append only” for existing kits
Digital content updates will be sent on physical media
Tools will be sent with a courier
The boxes may have an “insert only” opening to allow these updates without opening to box
More About Goals
This project is a bit different from previous discussions. I don’t want to be too opinionated about “How to recover”, the primary goal is knowledge preservation and let people figure out what to do with it.
This project is not aimed to help in all kinds of catastrophes.
Call To Action
Help me figure out how impactful this might be
Fix critical flaws in this idea
Open this project yourself and I’ll help with all the engineering
Convince me I should lead this project
(Maybe partner with me about this?)
Less Important call to action
Suggest updates to this list with other useful things
P.S. this idea came to me in a dream a few days after EAGx Berlin 2022, not sure what to do about that 🙃