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Leverage Research seems, at first glance at least, to be similar to SIAI. Their plans have similar shapes:
1). Grow the organization (donations welcome).
2). Use the now-grown organization to grow even faster.
3). ???
4). Profit ! Which is to say, solve all the world's problems / avoid global catastrophe / usher in a new age of peace and understanding / etc.
I think they need to be a bit more specific there in step 3.
We've tried to fill in step 3 quite a bit. Check out the plan and also our backup plan. We're definitely open to suggestions for ways to improve, especially places where the connection between the steps is the most tenuous.
I'd actually read your plan before posting my comment (though not the backup one). I found it very hard to follow and somewhat nebulous, but maybe it's just me. There, and on the backup plan, you say things like "Study field X and extract all useful information", which is a statement that I'm finding very difficult to call anything other than "hubris".
In addition, the sheer complexity of your flowchart is daunting, and I question its utility. Shouldn't you at least find out whether your Connection Theory works at all, and if so, whether it has practical applications, before drawing boxes about things like "design optimal societies" ?