On a related note, I wonder what an optimal portfolio of anti-existential risk programs would look like... although I suspect "holdings" of anti-nuclear programs per se would be on the lower side, if present.
At any rate, you might be interested in knowing that anti-violence is part of the (pro-liberty rather than existential risk) "portfolio" of the Thiel Foundation, although Imitatio has always been the one organization mentioned there that has consistently had me scratching my head as to what it means and why it matters (it is, I confess, also something I've not spent a lot of time on). There is also an academic field of peace studies which seems to address quite a few of your bullet points.
I wonder what an optimal portfolio of anti-existential risk programs would look like
Agreed that it's not obvious, and what's more, it would almost certainly be different than what one would expect to be reflected in the tag cloud of LW posts about what an optimal portfolio of anti-existential risk programs would look like.
E.g. global warming is an important issue, but it's not important for LW to dilute its content by being the millionth website to feature content on it.
I first attempted to post this in 2009, but bounced off the karma wall. Since then, MY forgetfulness and procrastination have been its nemesis.
I invite you to listen (read) in an unusual way. "Consider it": think WITH this idea for a while. There will be plenty of time to refute it later. I find that, if I START with, "That's so wrong!", I really weaken my ability to "pan for the gold".
Remember the Swamp!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/when_you're_up_to_your_neck_in_alligators,_it's_easy_to_forget_that_the_initial_objective_was_to_drain_the_swamp
I looked over the tag cloud and didn't see:
Admittedly, searching on war did provide a few results.
I invite you all to let this concern guide your posts: humanity is on a path toward multiple futures, and way too many (IMHO) of them include our extinction or the destruction of our civilization. Not many people even think about it. We have become so numb to the nuclear fear that was so palpable in the 1950s - early 1960s. When I talk to people about it, they remember, and most agree thet the huge nuclear arsenals are a really bad idea. But, it's not present in their daily thought.
Think big and think far.
Think about how we can have the great mass of people, not just a few rationalists, become Less Wrong about what is important.
Thanks for your Consideration.