On Neglectedness—Thus far it seems highly neglected, at least at a system-level. hifromtheotherside.com is one of the only projects I know in the space (but the founder is not contributing much time to it)
On Tractability—I have no clue. Many of these “bottom up”/individual-level solution spaces seem difficult and organic (though we would pattern match from the spread of the EA movement).
There’s a lot of momentum in this direction (the public is super aware of the problem). Whenever this happens, I’m tempted by pushing an EA mindset “outcome-izing/RCT-ing” the efforts in the space. So even if it doesn’t score highly on Neglectedness, we could attempt to move the solutions towards more cost-effective/consequentialist solutions.
This is highly related to the timewellspent.io movement that Tristan Harris (who was at EAGlobal) is pushing.
I feel like we need to differentiate between the “political-level” and the “community-level”.
I’m tempted to think about this from the “communities connect with communities” perspective. i.e The EA community is the “starting node/community” and then we start more explicitly collaborating/connecting with other adjacent communities. Then we can begin to scale a community connection program through adjacent nodes (likely defined by n-dimensional space seen here http://blog.ncase.me/the-other-side/).
Another version of this could be “scale the CFAR community”.
Nice link! I think there’s worthwhile research to be done here to get a more textured ITN.
On Impact—Here’s a small example of x-risk (nuclear threat coming from inside the White House): https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis.
On Neglectedness—Thus far it seems highly neglected, at least at a system-level. hifromtheotherside.com is one of the only projects I know in the space (but the founder is not contributing much time to it)
On Tractability—I have no clue. Many of these “bottom up”/individual-level solution spaces seem difficult and organic (though we would pattern match from the spread of the EA movement).
There’s a lot of momentum in this direction (the public is super aware of the problem). Whenever this happens, I’m tempted by pushing an EA mindset “outcome-izing/RCT-ing” the efforts in the space. So even if it doesn’t score highly on Neglectedness, we could attempt to move the solutions towards more cost-effective/consequentialist solutions.
This is highly related to the timewellspent.io movement that Tristan Harris (who was at EAGlobal) is pushing.
I feel like we need to differentiate between the “political-level” and the “community-level”.
I’m tempted to think about this from the “communities connect with communities” perspective. i.e The EA community is the “starting node/community” and then we start more explicitly collaborating/connecting with other adjacent communities. Then we can begin to scale a community connection program through adjacent nodes (likely defined by n-dimensional space seen here http://blog.ncase.me/the-other-side/).
Another version of this could be “scale the CFAR community”.
I think this could be related to Land Use Reform (https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/land-use-reform/) and how we construct empathetic communities with a variety of people. (Again, see Nicky Case — http://ncase.me/polygons/)
Thanks for the Nicky Case links