Elo comments on Roadmap: Plan of Action to Prevent Human Extinction Risks - Less Wrong Discussion
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Meta: I honestly didn't read the plan in full the first two times I posted. Instead I went to Wikipedia and looked up global catastrophic risk. Then once I had an understanding of what the definition of global catastrophic risk is; I thought up solutions (How would I best solve X) and checked if they were on the map.
The reason why I share this is because the first several things I thought of were not on the map. And it seems like several other answers are limited to "whats outside the box" (Think outside the box is a silly concept because it often involves people telling you exactly where the box is and where to think outside of) and indicated by things near the existing map. I am not sure that you are getting great improvements to the map from the way you have set the problem.
New idea: If I were hosting the map there would be a selection of known x-risk problems.
Something like:
AI:
Nanotechnology:
Biotechnology:
Nuclear:
Global climate:
And what each of the solutions on the solution map might help solve.
Edits: formatting. I still can't get the hang of formatting after this long!
Edit: it looks like you are working on other maps at http://immortality-roadmap.com/.
Yes, the site is not finished, but the map "Typology of human extinction risks" is ready and will be published next week. Around 100 risks will be listed. Any roadmap has its limitations because of its size and its basic 2D structure. Of course we could and should cover all option for all risks but it should be done in more details. Maybe I should do a map there to each risks will be suggested ways to its prevention.
I didn't really know what x-risks you were talking about; which is why a map of x-risks would have helped me.
Basically the same risks you listed here. I can PM you the map.