My thoughts on career options based on admittedly basic knowledge of your career situation, but having discussed similar questions re how to best support gcr reduction research.
1/ Me announcing a donation: yet to be convinced that money is what you as a demonstrably useful GCR researcher can best offer.
2/. A wargame like this one but with a more serious agricultural catastrophe: I would rather at least start by producing the simple policy papers that we guess would move relevant policymakers.
3/4. Me quitting my day job as a professor/to work maybe for GCRI: Sounds good. Look at CSER and FHI postdocs, and consider gradually pivoting through academia as an alternative.
5/ A media led strategy: how will you pitch this to media?
6/ Draft the response plan: seems to be a research project best done from a paid position
7/. Philanthropist hunt: seems best done to fund a research agenda for a new or existing org
8/. starting to fund (or do) resilience work. Also we could try to find and influence the people (e.g. USA, UK, China) who can commission research in this area: Sounds great. Many people should be working on this kind of thing through GCRI/FHI/CSER. Wonder whether IARPA would fund anything about disasters overlapping with intelligence too.
9/ Getting someone on site where a lot of action is happening, like Washington, DC or Rome (UN affiliates): sounds worth trying, perhaps this expense could be split with FHI etc. This should maybe attract EA funding so one could ask EA ventures to be hooked up too.
My thoughts on career options based on admittedly basic knowledge of your career situation, but having discussed similar questions re how to best support gcr reduction research.
1/ Me announcing a donation: yet to be convinced that money is what you as a demonstrably useful GCR researcher can best offer. 2/. A wargame like this one but with a more serious agricultural catastrophe: I would rather at least start by producing the simple policy papers that we guess would move relevant policymakers. 3/4. Me quitting my day job as a professor/to work maybe for GCRI: Sounds good. Look at CSER and FHI postdocs, and consider gradually pivoting through academia as an alternative. 5/ A media led strategy: how will you pitch this to media? 6/ Draft the response plan: seems to be a research project best done from a paid position 7/. Philanthropist hunt: seems best done to fund a research agenda for a new or existing org 8/. starting to fund (or do) resilience work. Also we could try to find and influence the people (e.g. USA, UK, China) who can commission research in this area: Sounds great. Many people should be working on this kind of thing through GCRI/FHI/CSER. Wonder whether IARPA would fund anything about disasters overlapping with intelligence too. 9/ Getting someone on site where a lot of action is happening, like Washington, DC or Rome (UN affiliates): sounds worth trying, perhaps this expense could be split with FHI etc. This should maybe attract EA funding so one could ask EA ventures to be hooked up too.