I imagine you/readers might also find my (much less extensive and much more slapdash) mapping of The x-risk policy pipeline & interventions for improving it interesting. It’s a short shortform, so I’ll copy it in its entirety below for convenience:
“I just had a call with someone who’s thinking about how to improve the existential risk research community’s ability to cause useful policies to be implemented well. This made me realise I’d be keen to see a diagram of the “pipeline” 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. Here’s 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 it’ll be somewhat interesting/useful 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 you’d find that useful.
This is great, thanks for sharing this! I had not come across your comment before -not sure if Caroline did- but it’s quite reassuring that despite two different approaches, two objectives, two different authorship, the overlapping descriptive part of the “steps in the chain” match almost exactly. I will edit the post to link to this.
Thanks for this post!
I imagine you/readers might also find my (much less extensive and much more slapdash) mapping of The x-risk policy pipeline & interventions for improving it interesting. It’s a short shortform, so I’ll copy it in its entirety below for convenience:
“I just had a call with someone who’s thinking about how to improve the existential risk research community’s ability to cause useful policies to be implemented well. This made me realise I’d be keen to see a diagram of the “pipeline” 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. Here’s 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 it’ll be somewhat interesting/useful 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 you’d find that useful.
*One of many examples of the relevant stuff I haven’t myself read is CSER’s report on Pathways to Linking Science and Policy in the Field of Global Risk.”
This is great, thanks for sharing this! I had not come across your comment before -not sure if Caroline did- but it’s quite reassuring that despite two different approaches, two objectives, two different authorship, the overlapping descriptive part of the “steps in the chain” match almost exactly. I will edit the post to link to this.