Let’s do an experiment in "reverse crowdfunding”. I will pay 50 USD to anyone who can suggest a new way of X-risk prevention that is not already mentioned in this roadmap. Post your ideas as a comment to this post.
Should more than one person have the same idea, the award will be made to the person who posted it first.
The idea must be endorsed by me and included in the roadmap in order to qualify, and it must be new, rational and consistent with modern scientific data.
I may include you as a co-author in the roadmap (if you agree).
The roadmap is distributed under an open license GNU.
Payment will be made by PayPal. The total amount of the prize fund is 500 USD (total 10 prizes).
The competition is open until the end of 2015.
The roadmap can be downloaded as a pdf from:
UPDATE: I uploaded new version of the map with changes marked in blue.
http://immortality-roadmap.com/globriskeng.pdf
Email: alexei.turchin@gmail.com
New idea: Nuclear hoarding. Collecting of all nuclear particles to limit its ability to be used. (not sure if this falls under a larger "worldwide risk prevention authority", but it doesn't have to be carried out willingly, it can be carried out via capitalism. Just purchase and contain the material.)
New idea: to limit climate change. tree-planting. plant massive numbers of green species in order to reduce the carbon in the atmosphere. Australia is a large land mass that is unused and could be utilised to grow the oxygen farm and carbon capture we need to keep the planet from melting. (there are still problems with water and arable land, but that is a problem that slowly solves itself as more plants are grown)
New idea: be first. develop defensive biotechnology/nanotechnology systems before destructive ones exist. rather than catering to them as they appear.
New idea: solve x-risk threat the same way we solve tragedy of the commons. Bind those involved to consequences. But this time use personal consequences. i.e. the individuals responsible, their families and their genetics will be put to death by a global army if they cause x-damage. effectively dis-incentivising starting a war that leads to anything short of total planetary destruction because there are personal repercussions of doing so.
new idea: ozone repair drones. Robots to improve the ozone layer so that it does not receive damage from co2 as harshly. improving our chances of keeping the planet cool.
new idea: rain-drones, weather control technologies to decrease the damage of adverse weather and improve our control over it and reduce the damage caused by climate change.
new idea: create a second moon (or synthetic planet) and second-moon colony. either by capturing an asteroid; or by sending mass from earth to become a floating body.
new idea: push mars into a more habitable solar orbit and terraform.