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Is anyone systematically working on the other side of the pancake: existential opportunities?
People are working on particular opportunities, but I haven't heard of people doing the depth first search for opportunities.
What do you mean by 'existential opportunities'?
What would be game changing in terms of avoiding threats, and our resilience to threats?
(not sure this is the right answer) Potentially FHI prize competition could be seen as an attempt to pursue that end? ( http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/prize , it's closed now)
Interesting.
They seem more focused on general problem solving than game changing, but just raising the questions they do is game changing in a way. The blue team is Us, and what would harm us is Them. Getting people to increasingly view everyone else as Us would be game changing.
One of the things that cheers me about Death - it's a common bond with everyone else. Well, those living today for an afterlife tomorrow probably aren't so much part of that common bond, but maybe they'll come around someday.