Tools for improved transmission of tacit knowledge
Biorisk and recovery from catastrophe
Many scientific and technological skills require learning through apprenticeship under a more experienced practitioner, and can’t easily be described in writing. If a global catastrophe breaks the transmission of skills from masters to apprentices, it may be difficult to recover those skills. This would make recovery from catastrophe difficult. But there may be ways of improving the recording of these skills, such as through video or methods of observing expert performance.
Additional notes: There is a blog series on tacit knowledge and tacit knowledge extraction here: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-tacit-knowledge-series/
SEP for every subject
Epistemic institutions
Create free online encyclopedias for every academic subject (or those most relevant to longtermism) written by experts and regularly updated. Despite the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy being widely-known and well-loved there are few examples from other subjects. Often academic encyclopedias are both behind institutional paywalls and not accessible on sci-hub (e.g. https://oxfordre.com/). This would provide decisionmakers and the public with better access to academic views on a variety of topics.