Hello everyone! I have some news!
Recently I won Emergent Ventures grant from generous Tyler Cowen!
What's in my mind and what I want to build?
I see that level of development of human civilization is defined by existing institutions and technologies and their interplay. So, to entry to next iteration of civilization we should both develop technologies and insututions. Technologies are developing now in tremendous way (despite some today stagnation there) but what about institutions?
I see institutional decay and decline and that's very sad. We should more build not only new technologies and essential products like housing but new instituions also.
We can build new institutions in private or public way. By public way I mean by politicians like Joe Biden or government officials like administration of FDA. By private way I mean by citizens in non-profit or for-profit variations. Each way has own pros and cons - for example, private initiatives are more risky and expirementational whearas public ones are more stable and scaled.
So, I am focusing on private initiatives and I want to support them, so my project is about creating the map of new private institutions like New Science or Institute for Progress or Plumia or Charter Cities or Long Now Foundation to promote them and motivate people join or donate them. Also I want to create the Library of Ideas for alternative and new institutions to create one space for institutional design both in research (you can propose and develop your concept of new institute) and building (you can build and realize this concept) domains. The final component of the project will be toolkit for builders of new institutions. The grand vision of this project is to become a "lab" for institutional design and building to bring into existence institutions of 21th century or at least encourage governments to do it.
I don't expect some kind of grandiose success, I just want to make my small contribution to the development of new institutions of the 21st century, because I consider this topic absolutely as important as AGI or fusion. Let's build!