20-07-28 Worthy Problems
Category: Idea Lists (Upon Request)
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Levels of specificity. I want it to be ‘company level’. I’d like to discuss both problems and products. But problems have a slightly different shape.
Examples:
- Integrated Information Retrieval
- Open Domain Dialogue
- Automating Abstract Planning
- Artificial Wombs
- Flying Cars
- Cheap Space Travel
- Mars Colony
- Standard human intelligence -> superintelligence
- Via machine intelligence / AGI
- Via biological superintelligence
- Via emulation
- Regular life span -> Default to immortality, barring accidents
- Default dead -> default alive
- Forging the Philosopher’s Stone / Anti-Aging / Life Extension / Longevity / Increasing Healthspan / Immortality
- Type 1 Civilization (Planetary) -> Type 2 Civilization (Stellar) -> Type 3 Civilization (Galactic)
- Able to create realistic universes
- Via VR / rendering (top down)
- Via physics simulation (bottom up)
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- Inability to create life -> able to create life
- Detailed and generally predictive control over genetics
- No control over laws of physics -> control over physics
- This strongly depends on how the laws are implemented.
- Infectious Diseases
- Existential Risk
- Nuclear safety
- AGI safety
- Pandemic safety
- Climate change
- Quantum Computing
- Robotics (Likely just going to happen, autonomous weapons)
- Intelligent Roads (Solar Roads, Electric Charging, self-updating, self-driving)
- Generating New Life (Synthetic Bio)
- Redesigning Capitalism
- Iterated Embryo Selection (for intelligence) + Deriving Sperm / Egg cells from embryonic stem cells
- Fusion
- Fission
- Ubiquitous miniaturized fission. Cars, homes, seasteads, skysteads, certainly every major city.
- Seasteading
- Skysteading
- Geoengineering
- Reforestation (Automated)
- Cloud Salting
- Hypersonic Aircraft
- Drone Creation
- Room Temperature Superconductor
- Computational Memetics
- Systematizing Creativity
- Political System Design
- Public Policy
- Optical Computing
- Political Leadership
- SETI / UFO Search
- Religion Creation
- Housing Manufacturing
- Language Creation
- 3D Printing
- Gene drive / edit away malaria.
- Engineer new, more grounded and stable psychedelics. Scale to general population.
- Engineering Experience. Create the agency pill.
- Ubiquitous integrated information retrieval.
- Engineering Local Omniscience (knowing all that humanity knows)
- Nanotechnology aimed at medical treatment & bodily repair.
- Autonomous drones, both commercial and for defense.
- Artificial wombs (to birth a genetically idealized nation).
- Creation of Life
- Paths to safe AGI research lab.
- Nuclear Taiwan
Problems with the ‘problem’ framing: Things in art don’t fit. Music, religion, etc. can be framed this way but it doesn’t line up with true motivations.
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