(Tentatively Titled and Under Construction, but I felt I ought to start this page anyway as a form of self-accountability. )
I want to save the world. If you’re here, I hope you do, too.
This is meant to be a practically motivated compendium of:
- the various problems humanity faces
- my attempts to come to grips with them
- useful contacts or knowledgeable specialists in the field
- projects that are trying to solve these problems
- recommendations for how to get involved
The vision is that ultimately, the writings here will come to comprise my personal theory of change.
In the event that good expositions exist already, I will link directly to them, and perhaps provide summarisation, contextualisation and commentary.
A great place to start seems to be: https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/
The book The Precipice by Tony Ord also seems great for an overview of potential extinction risks even if it is non-obvious to me how concretely actionable it is.
I’m currently working on setting up these guides, but for the moment, here are some good example resources:
- On Thinking
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange
https://www.julian.com/blog/mental-model-examples
- Systems and Social Entrepreneurship
https://www.co-impact.org/
https://solutions.leverforchange.org/explore-solutions/
https://www.newventurefund.org/project-directory/
https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centres-and-initiatives/skoll-centre-social-entrepreneurship
https://skoll.org/skoll-world-forum/2020-network/
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/fellowship-program/research-partnership-opportunity/mapping-worlds-decision-makers-and-influencers
- Policy and Policy Design
https://apolitical.co/home
https://paulcairney.wordpress.com/500-words/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314086441_The_COM-B_Theory_of_Change_Model_V3
https://www.founderspledge.com/research
- Philanthropy
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
https://www.openphilanthropy.org/
https://www.grantmakers.io/
https://www.givewell.org/
https://www.leverforchange.org/library/resource-library/
https://www.charitynavigator.org/
- Climate Change
https://drawdown.org/
http://www.airminers.org/
https://www.climateinteractive.org/
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabf9b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabf9f/meta
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabff4/meta
https://carbon180.org/
- Development
https://www.povertyactionlab.org/
http://idin.org/resource-library
https://d-lab.mit.edu/about/mit-ecosystem
- Food and Water
https://sswm.info/index.php/about-toolbox
https://www.susana.org/en//knowledge-hub/projects
http://www.safsf.org/who/safsf-values/
- Alternative Governance Structures
https://www.radicalxchange.org/
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/altinst.html
https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/june-2017/libertarian-social-engineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action
https://medium.com/@memetic007/liquid-democracy-9cf7a4cb7f
https://www.chartercitiesinstitute.org/post/a-beginners-guide-to-building-new-cities
- Social Movement Building
https://www.purpose.com/
https://ideas.ted.com/how-to-build-a-successful-movement-in-4-steps/
https://trainings.350.org/for/organisers/
https://www.thechangeagency.org/
- AI Safety
https://vkrakovna.wordpress.com/ai-safety-resources/ (seems pretty comprehensive)
https://www.alignmentforum.org/ (in particular, the 3 featured sequences)