TL;DR We made a tool that allows you to interactively explore LessWrong, EA Forum and - potentially - other large collections of documents. It seems like this part of the Information Retrieval field is highly underutilized in practice, so I listed some ideas on where it could be used, including a project on AI Governance research. Some of those I already tried, and it looks promising. Please, let me know if you have ideas on how to apply this to some other fields, especially if you'd be personally interested in doing this.
While doing my PhD and generally looking for information on areas that I don't understand, I've met the problem that the... (read 2730 more words →)
"With Solar Radiation Management techniques specifically, it is not possible to be certain of the effects on ecosystems’ biodiversity, since it will create an entirely new ecological balance (or disturbance) (Alan Robock., 2016). The energy from incoming sunlight is an essential resource for life on the planet and is closely linked, for example, to supporting the oceanic algae that produce most of the world’s oxygen"
From the book "The Big Bad Fix", 2018
In our discussion and potential actions, we should not focus only on climate-related side-effects. We should take into account risks connected to the ocean ecosystem functioning. The ocean is full of living organisms that depend on each other's... (read more)