I imagine you/āreaders might also find my (much less extensive and much more slapdash) mapping of The x-risk policy pipeline & interventions for improving it interesting. Itās a short shortform, so Iāll copy it in its entirety below for convenience:
āI just had a call with someone whoās thinking about how to improve the existential risk research communityās ability to cause useful policies to be implemented well. This made me realise Iād be keen to see a diagram of the āpipelineā from research to implementation of good policies, showing various intervention options and which steps of the pipeline they help with. I decided to quickly whip such a diagram up after the call, forcing myself to spend no more than 30 mins on it. Hereās the result.
(This is of course imperfect in oodles of ways, probably overlaps with and ignores a bunch of existing work on policymaking*, presents things as more one-way and simplistic than they really are, etc. But maybe itāll be somewhat interesting/āuseful to some people.)
(If the images are too small for you, you can open each in a new tab.)
Steps in the pipeline, and example actors
The first first steps + possible interventions. (Iām screenshotting one side of the diagram at a time so the text is large enough to read.)
The last few steps + possible interventions.
The full diagram
Feel free to ask me to explain anything that seems unclear. I could also probably give you an editable copy if youād find that useful.
This is great, thanks for sharing this! I had not come across your comment before -not sure if Caroline did- but itās quite reassuring that despite two different approaches, two objectives, two different authorship, the overlapping descriptive part of the āsteps in the chainā match almost exactly. I will edit the post to link to this.
Thanks for this post!
I imagine you/āreaders might also find my (much less extensive and much more slapdash) mapping of The x-risk policy pipeline & interventions for improving it interesting. Itās a short shortform, so Iāll copy it in its entirety below for convenience:
āI just had a call with someone whoās thinking about how to improve the existential risk research communityās ability to cause useful policies to be implemented well. This made me realise Iād be keen to see a diagram of the āpipelineā from research to implementation of good policies, showing various intervention options and which steps of the pipeline they help with. I decided to quickly whip such a diagram up after the call, forcing myself to spend no more than 30 mins on it. Hereās the result.
(This is of course imperfect in oodles of ways, probably overlaps with and ignores a bunch of existing work on policymaking*, presents things as more one-way and simplistic than they really are, etc. But maybe itāll be somewhat interesting/āuseful to some people.)
(If the images are too small for you, you can open each in a new tab.)
Feel free to ask me to explain anything that seems unclear. I could also probably give you an editable copy if youād find that useful.
*One of many examples of the relevant stuff I havenāt myself read is CSERās report on Pathways to Linking Science and Policy in the Field of Global Risk.ā
This is great, thanks for sharing this! I had not come across your comment before -not sure if Caroline did- but itās quite reassuring that despite two different approaches, two objectives, two different authorship, the overlapping descriptive part of the āsteps in the chainā match almost exactly. I will edit the post to link to this.