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# 20-07-28 Worthy Problems

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[Read the original document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lR5X0xZqSObnQhk4jBJjeFBEPloKcFbCjQiJqMWaj3M/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076751000&usg=AOvVaw25yud7GxpOW9EC8mW0ph5U)

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Similar:
* Future technologies to make happen
* Examples of Transcendence
* Sectors of the economy
* Fields (Each field’s problems)
* Library (Each category’s problems)
* Government
* Grand Scientific Projects
* Worthy Projects
* Library Projects
* Institution Design Working Group

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:

1. Integrated Information Retrieval
2. Open Domain Dialogue
3. Automating Abstract Planning
4. Artificial Wombs
5. Flying Cars
6. Cheap Space Travel
7. Mars Colony
8. Standard human intelligence -> superintelligence
   1. Via machine intelligence / AGI
   2. Via biological superintelligence
   3. Via emulation
9. Regular life span -> Default to immortality, barring accidents
   1. Default dead -> default alive
   2. Forging the Philosopher’s Stone / Anti-Aging / Life Extension / Longevity / Increasing Healthspan / Immortality
10. Type 1 Civilization (Planetary) -> Type 2 Civilization (Stellar) -> Type 3 Civilization (Galactic)
11. Able to create realistic universes
   1. Via VR / rendering (top down)
   2. Via physics simulation (bottom up)
12. Virtual Reality
13. Augmented Reality
14. Inability to create life -> able to create life
   1. Detailed and generally predictive control over genetics
15. No control over laws of physics -> control over physics
   1. This strongly depends on how the laws are implemented.
16. Infectious Diseases
17. Existential Risk
   1. Nuclear safety
   2. AGI safety
   3. Pandemic safety
   4. Climate change
18. Quantum Computing
19. Robotics (Likely just going to happen, autonomous weapons)
20. Intelligent Roads (Solar Roads, Electric Charging, self-updating, self-driving)
21. Generating New Life (Synthetic Bio)
22. Redesigning Capitalism
23. Iterated Embryo Selection (for intelligence) + Deriving Sperm / Egg cells from embryonic stem cells
24. Fusion
25. Fission
   1. Ubiquitous miniaturized fission. Cars, homes, seasteads, skysteads, certainly every major city.
26. Seasteading
27. Skysteading
28. Geoengineering
   1. Reforestation (Automated)
   2. Cloud Salting
29. Hypersonic Aircraft
30. Drone Creation
31. Room Temperature Superconductor
32. Computational Memetics
33. Systematizing Creativity
34. Political System Design
35. Public Policy
36. Optical Computing
37. Political Leadership
38. SETI / UFO Search
39. Religion Creation
40. Housing Manufacturing
41. Language Creation
42. 3D Printing
43. Gene drive / edit away malaria.
44. Engineer new, more grounded and stable psychedelics. Scale to general population.
   1. Engineering Experience. Create the agency pill.
45. Ubiquitous integrated information retrieval.
   1. Engineering Local Omniscience (knowing all that humanity knows)
46. Nanotechnology aimed at medical treatment & bodily repair.
47. Autonomous drones, both commercial and for defense.
48. Artificial wombs (to birth a genetically idealized nation).
   1. Creation of Life
49. Paths to safe AGI research lab.
50. 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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*Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lR5X0xZqSObnQhk4jBJjeFBEPloKcFbCjQiJqMWaj3M/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076751000&usg=AOvVaw25yud7GxpOW9EC8mW0ph5U)*