Optimistic advice for finding one’s path.
Book and course by astrobiologist on how to be of service to humanity.
Life advice for people seeking non-traditional paths.
Use the Paleoclimatic Record to Find Analogues and Solutions
A book about chaos theory.
Architectures that help people make better decisions.
A system in which representatives manage measurement of national welfare.
Identifies tools for progress with multiplier effects.
A blog of Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok.
A weekly economics podcast hosted by Russ Roberts.
A network of not-for-profit co-ops and intentional communities.
Reviews exotic past and present legal systems that encourage experimentation with legal structures.
A systematic historical analysis of the failure of institutions.
CFAR offers workshops to improve people’s thinking.
Organization with a mission to close the gap between insights from research about human behavior and actions in the real world.
forecasting technology platform that optimally aggregates quantitative predictions of future events.
Shows just how much values drift over time.
How should one reason and act if one acknowledges that one is uncertain about morality?
Nick Bostrom explores the huge shifts that have led to humanity’s current state, and considers the choices that will determine our future.
Discussion about consciousness and what it means for AI.
Argues for an inversion by which the brain is an inference organ, minimizing average surprise from sensory experience of the world.
This book helps envision how cities, companies and biological life alike are dancing to the same simple, powerful tune.
A foundation which studies and connects the industry of small experimental governments, or startup societies.
social network with an agreed-upon leader, an integrated cryptocurrency, a definite purpose, and a plan to crowdfund territory.
A non-profit institution studying special jurisdictions across the world.
Building the ecosystem for charter cities — new cities granted a special jurisdiction to create a new governance system.
Fostering long-term thinking and responsibility.
The million year life span is not an unsupported pipe dream.
Explores the deep link between energy and genes.
The world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.
On what physics can tell us about free will, chaos, the arrow of time and more.
This is the first of a series of three blog posts intended as a primer on how technology can help to address climate change.
Hayek's influential article on practicality versus that which is purely scientific or theoretical.
Promotes connections across the social sciences, with greater internal discussion and interaction across disciplinary boundaries
A map through the disciplines of social sciences.
Some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself.
Book by Richard Feynman. Collection of three lectures on the relationship between science and society.
This post traces major scientific heuristics back to their classical origins.
This compendium provides some useful intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument
What is the "weapon of openness" and why is it the best weapon of a democracy?
A defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism.
A history of science that argues that science jumps in paradigm shifts.
Learning to better navigate our shared conceptual scheme.
Buterin's collection of blogposts on technical crypto subjects.
A group developing and shaping cybersecurity research and practice based on long-termism.
A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
An international non-profit digital rights group.
Early email lists, protocols, and background resources on Bitcoin.
A fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future.
But it won’t be artificially intelligent.
The next threat to national security and what to do about it.
Seminar that theorizes how our contemporary laws and computer security technologies are intersecting.
How Bitcoin may play a fundamental role in the ushering in of an "end of history".
A mailing list for discussing cryptography and its effect on society.
“A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy."
Explains how privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.
A list of the core writings in the cypherpunk movement.
This book reveals bold new ways to organize markets for the good of everyone.
Explains why Bitcoin’s supporters trust it so deeply, and why you can too.
This book explains the operation of Bitcoin in a functional and intuitive way.
An overview of who invented blockchains, what applications they’re useful for, and how they are made.
The white paper for Bitcoin.
This presentation addresses the technologies, the actors, and the market around quantum computing.
View of new technologies as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure called The Stack.
An early paper on the applicability of government on the rapidly growing internet.
This book is a collection of Marvin Minsky's ideas about how the mind works.
A call for “reciprocal transparency" in an ever-growing society of surveillance.
Group of scientists who leverage those technologies to improve voluntary cooperation across humans, and ultimately AIs.
Scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate.
World-leading academics working on critical climate change issues.
Accurately predict changes in the global environment.
NASA's collection of global warming resources.
Search tool for jobs at startups and non-profit in the climate sector.
Four research categories in Co2 removal YC wants to fund.
Advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future.
An organization that seeks to help the world reach greenhouse gas decline.
Sketches out approaches for the use of energy and the molecular extraction of solutes.
Talk by Tom Chi on how to create a positive future.
A near future world where humanity is almost destroyed by the opening of deep subterranean reservoirs of water
Theory which views the entire earth as a living meta-organism.
Work of critical theory and a reimagining of terms such as “nature” and “world.
Paints a picture of what will happen in our children's and grandchildren's lifetimes.