This is really fantastic, and seems like there is a project that could be done as a larger collaboration, building off of this post.
It would be a significant amount of additional work, but it seems very valuable to list resources relevant to each question—especially as some seem important, but have been partly addressed. (For example, re: estimates of natural pandemic risks, see my paper, and then Andrew Snyder-Beattie’s paper.)
Given that, would you be interested in having this put into a Google Doc and inviting people to collaborate on a more comprehensive overall long-termist research agenda document?
Thanks for the comment! I definitely agree that listing relevant resources would be useful, as would allowing people to collaborate on that, and in fact we’ve already done so! The links to relevant resources can be found in the Google docs linked to in each place where it says “See here for notes and links related to these topics.”
I’d definitely encourage people to comment on those Google docs to suggest additional resources, questions, points about implications, etc.
I hadn’t really thought of making this overview article itself an editable Google doc, but it seems possible that’d be useful, so here’s the link to what was the draft of this post. People can feel free to continue to make comments there (or here), and I may make some changes to this post in response.
Did you have something different/more than that in mind when you said “having this put into a Google Doc and inviting people to collaborate on a more comprehensive overall long-termist research agenda document”?
Also, as more general points:
I definitely imagine there could be useful further collaborations building off this project (beyond just suggesting more resources and questions). And I’d guess that I and/or Convergence would be happy with to work/talk with people on that (though I’m not speaking for Convergence when I say that).
This is really fantastic, and seems like there is a project that could be done as a larger collaboration, building off of this post.
It would be a significant amount of additional work, but it seems very valuable to list resources relevant to each question—especially as some seem important, but have been partly addressed. (For example, re: estimates of natural pandemic risks, see my paper, and then Andrew Snyder-Beattie’s paper.)
Given that, would you be interested in having this put into a Google Doc and inviting people to collaborate on a more comprehensive overall long-termist research agenda document?
Thanks for the comment! I definitely agree that listing relevant resources would be useful, as would allowing people to collaborate on that, and in fact we’ve already done so! The links to relevant resources can be found in the Google docs linked to in each place where it says “See here for notes and links related to these topics.”
I actually already had a link to your paper in the Google doc section on naturally arising pandemics. Though I didn’t have the Snyder-Beattie paper there, so thanks for mentioning that—I’ve now added it.
I’d definitely encourage people to comment on those Google docs to suggest additional resources, questions, points about implications, etc.
I hadn’t really thought of making this overview article itself an editable Google doc, but it seems possible that’d be useful, so here’s the link to what was the draft of this post. People can feel free to continue to make comments there (or here), and I may make some changes to this post in response.
Did you have something different/more than that in mind when you said “having this put into a Google Doc and inviting people to collaborate on a more comprehensive overall long-termist research agenda document”?
Also, as more general points:
I definitely imagine there could be useful further collaborations building off this project (beyond just suggesting more resources and questions). And I’d guess that I and/or Convergence would be happy with to work/talk with people on that (though I’m not speaking for Convergence when I say that).
I think making collaboratively editable Google docs of things is often a great move (this was part of the motivation for my central directory of open research questions and my database of existential risk estimates)