My current high-level strategic picture of the world

• Two problems to work on, towards existential security: technical Alignment, and “civilisational sanity”. Total output is the sum of each of them: Solving one fully means the other doesn’t need to be solved at all, some progress in one means less progress is needed in the other to reach security. Civilisational sanity example: during March 2020 governments order loads of vaccines, simultaneously running human challenge trials etc. - taking the problem seriously
  • Within civilisation sanity, some interventions include: making space for more experimentation for e.g. charter cities, alternatives voting methods etc.; letting China take over; resolving trauma (??), intelligence enhancement (e.g. CRISPR)
    • I would add: I guess anything that Cummings cares about, What are some Civilizational Sanity Interventions?

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My strategic picture of the work that needs to be done