What would you say gives you a feeling of existential hope, and what can we do to inspire more of it?

By elteerkers @ 2022-01-26T13:46 (+18)

The EA community is to a large extent dedicated to identifying threats to human existence but very few offer guidance on what to aim for instead. 

Currently I'm working with a team on a big re-design/re-purposing of this long dormant Existential Hope-website: https://www.existentialhope.com  

As it is now the site is packed with content on what people have said gives them a feeling of existential hope. This can be everything from art to scientific research papers. 

In re-doing the website, the current goal is to organize all of this content in a more intuitive/inviting way, to  map the space of both peril and promise which lie before us and to create a flourishing hub that lists all major resources, projects and organizations in the Xhope/future-positive space with a monthly email digest of current opportunities, projects, progresses made, etc.. 


Questions I would love thoughts on:

MaxRa @ 2022-01-27T09:58 (+2)

Sounds great!

Have you thought about translating the website to different languages?

elteerkers @ 2022-01-27T20:35 (+3)

No we haven't! But that sounds like something that could be super impactful. What language would be the most important ones? Mandarin and Spanish?

HaukeHillebrandt @ 2022-01-27T00:00 (+2)

The post "Good news on climate change" which "is about how much warming we should expect on current policy and assuming emissions stop at 2100. We argue the risk of extreme warming (>6 degrees) conditional on these assumptions now looks much lower than it once did.

Crucially, the point of this post is about the direction of an update, not an absolute assessment of risk -- indeed, the two of us disagree a fair amount on the absolute risk, but strongly agree on the direction and relative magnitude of the update."

elteerkers @ 2022-01-27T08:53 (+1)

Wow that's great news! Thank you for this link.