Website concept for visualizing existential risk - looking for feedback/funding

By Ville Seppälä @ 2025-07-05T11:41 (+3)

Hi EA community! New poster here, also quite novice on the topic. 

TL;DR

I’m interested in creating a website for visualizing existential risk and its consequences. So far, I have created an outline/wireframe of the page, subject to major changes: 

The site allows the users to input yearly values for existential risk (or survival) probability for various time periods, and then calculates the expected longevity of humankind (measured in expected years the humankind has left or expected human lives that will be lived) over the chosen time scale. The graphs show the results in both the condensed and linear time scales. 

Site would be produced in R with its “shiny” and “ggplot2” libraries. 

 

Powerpoint presentation of the concept

This presentation gives a more detailed overview of the site and its functionality, with the above sketch of the site layout as its focal point:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MYwDxNplckHsZZDX9KoPoIQtO3CPq4YPcuMRX1p3bhM/edit?usp=sharing

I advise you to check the presentation before participating in the conversation.

 

What the site aims to do: 

The site has two target audiences/aims: 

 

Looking for feedback/funding

Currently I’m looking for: 

 

From this thread, I mostly aim to get feedback, both to make the site as good as possible and to help tp get funding. The kind of feedback I’m looking for: