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Welcome to the Cause Prioritization Wiki!
This wiki aims to be a useful resource for information on cause prioritization. Look at the categories for how this wiki is organized, or the list below for some of the causes being explored. At the moment the goal is to collect resources related to cause prioritization on each of the causes (in particular, the importance, tractability, and neglectedness of the causes) and to produce many shallow investigations on these causes. See the goals of the wiki and the FAQ for more information.
This wiki is mirrored on GitHub, where you can get a full copy of it (including all of the revision history). Additionally, auxiliary files are available at a separate Git repository.
Contact Issa Rice for questions.
A partial list of causes
Eventually, we hope this wiki will provide extensive coverage for some or all of the following causes.
Causes with a nontrivial amount of content
- Cause prioritization itself
- Climate change
- Existential risk
- Life extension/anti-aging
- Quantified self/self-experimentation
- Romance
- Unschooling (merge with Education reform and disruption?)
Causes with little coverage
- Abundance mentality
- Access to entertainment
- Adult friendships
- Adult learning
- Advancing liberty
- Agrarian reform
- AI safety
- AI strategy
- Aliens
- Allocation of talent
- Animal welfare
- Argument mapping
- Asteroids
- Basic income
- Basic science research
- Better explanations
- Biomedical research
- Biosecurity
- Blockchain x-risks
- Brain-machine interface
- Cause prioritization
- Charity evaluation
- Charter cities
- Child rights
- Climate change
- Communication
- Computer security
- Content creation
- Contributing to free and open-source software projects
- Coordination
- Copyright
- Cost disease
- Criminal justice reform
- Cryonics
- Decentralized web
- Democracy
- Depression
- Development communication
- Digital preservation; Link Rot
- Digital rights
- Disaster relief
- Disrupting adolescence
- Disrupting commute
- Eating disorders
- Early childhood development
- Education in the developing world
- Education reform and disruption
- Electromagnetic pulses
- Emerging technologies assessment
- Emotional intelligence
- Energy
- Entertainment
- Environmentalism
- Fluid intelligence decline with age
- Forecasting
- Geoengineering
- Geomagnetic storms
- Governance
- Global coordination
- Global health
- Having children
- Hedonism
- Homelessness
- Improve trust
- Improving democracy
- Improving science
- In vitro meat
- Increasing empathy
- Increasing savings
- Intelligence enhancement
- International development
- Job selection/correct Allocation of talent (merge?)
Knowledge loss over time; forgetting
- Land reform
- Large-scale social movements
- Lawn disruption (merge with Water use?)
- Lie detection
- Life extension
- Lifestyle improvements
- Macroeconomic policy
- Measuring subjective well-being
- Mechanism and institution design
- Medical research
- Mental health; specifically, Addiction, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, and Schizophrenia. Could Emotional Intelligence fit under here?
- Meta-research
- Migration; specifically, labor mobility and open borders
- Moral circle expansion
- Moral economics
- Moral trade
- Morality of society
- Nanotechnology
- Occupational licensing
- Open science/Citizen Science
- Pain relief
- Personal assistants
- Personal health
- Pet population control
- Philosophical progress
- Population control
- Pornography
- Preventing totalitarianism
- Prison reform
- Promoting effective altruism
- Prostitution
- Recovery from a global catastrophe
- Recreational drug use
- Reducing crackpotism
- Reduction of conflict and violence
- Reforming academia
- Sexual repression
- Sharing economy
- Simulation hypothesis
- Small and Medium Enterprise Support
- Social inequality/poverty in the developed world
- Software patent reform
- Space exploration
- Space governance
- Sperm donation
- Suing media
- Summer programs
- UI design
- Vibrator distribution
- Violent actions
- Virtual reality
- Wastes of time
- Water use
- Wild animal welfare
- Zoning reform
Note: All principal causes (i.e. like those listed above) will have the category “Cause_areas”. (This is so that in the future, if the number of principal causes increases, these can all be found in one place, even if the list above is not updated. See also the discussion here.)
Contributing
Contact Issa Rice to obtain an account on the wiki. Alternatively, you can fork the wikidata directory on GitHub, and send a pull request.
If you’re not sure where you can contribute, try searching for “FIXME” in the search bar.
See also our Manual of style.
License
In order to make the work done here as extensible as possible, we ask that all contributions be made under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. In particular, by contributing to this wiki, you agree to make your work available under CC BY.
