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Directly help with LessOnline and/or Manifest

Help Ray with Feedbackloop Rationality

Directly help with the LessWrong Community Weekend

Actively talk to as many organizers as possible

Publish the rest of Running A Basic ____ sequence, going up to 1k+ events

Build a better Meetup Crossposter

Run a Meetup Exchange Program

Run an essayist writing group

Make the refined, digital version of Meetup In A Box

Run East Coast Rationalist Megameetup

Youtube Guide To ACX

Tiktok Guide To The Sequences

Run Vermont/Massachusetts Summer Solstice

Run LessWrong Community Census 2025

Get a Rationality Club going in a high school

Publish the rest of Conflict Resolution sequence

Run the ACX Meetup Reimbursement program

Run a paid workshop or dojo (Think CFAR workshop or Trading Bootcamp)

Fix and upgrade LessWrong's /Community page

Find a nice high paid normal job and fund someone else doing cool rationality meetup stuff

Put together an ACX equivalent to the EA Handbook

Create an ACX Jobs Board

Help get a Boston version of Fractal off the ground

Run Boston Solstice

Publish Anatomy of Community sequence

Set up a formal 501c3 (or something like that)

Handle incoming complaints about local meetups

Publish a guide to running a Sky-Style Summer Solstice

Backend ACX Everywhere (Fall and Spring)

Get Calibration Trivia to be run in multiple pubs, unaffiliated with the rationalist community

Publish some really good fanfic

Publish a beautiful, well edited Highlights From The Codex in physical form

HPMOR 10-year anniversary

Remains without any contender organization

Remains existing, but there is/are other organization thay claim the same missions, and have membership of at least 60% of the countries that represent at least 60% of total human population, present on all continents

It still exists, but members are less than 60% of the recognized countries or contain less than 60% of world population, and there are no contender organizations that meet these criteria

Remains, and Its UPGRADED, covering 99% of habitable earth and maintaining high conflict resolution capabilities and in possession of nuclear weapons

Disbanded and replaced with another organization (the League of Nations trajectory) that achives worldwide acceptance

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New Weapon

Advanced Observation Haki/Future Sight

Devil Fruit (On him or his weapon)

Conqueror's Haki

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Platform for migrants to start legal & profitable microbusinesses.

Database of the Most Impactful Research Questions by Discipline and Cause Area

Leveraging biophysical techniques to improve the efficiency of successful pregnancies in older women

Research microeconomic disruptions caused by AGI

The Odyssean Institute

Mechanical Library

Educate the public about high impact causes

Science prediction markets for replicability

Free Our Knowledge: Improving scientific publishing through collective action

Researching low-input traditional agricultural techniques.

Growing human blood vessels in the lab to unlock replacement tissue/organ therapies

LLM Multi-Actor Tool to automate Economic Experiments

Building software to demystify land use regulations

Gather all formal demographic fertility and population projection methods into a single open source R package for academic, policy, and popular use

Psychosis in velocardiofacial syndrome (DiGeorge/22q11.2 deletion syndrome)

Conduct preliminary studies on the impact of MKP-2 on COVID-19 vaccine mediated depression

MPhil/PhD in Psychology to understand understand how issue polarisation arises from divergences in belief revision via Bayesian networks

Transform waste streams into biodegradable alternatives

H-Test: identifying a set of "blindspot" tasks for LLMs that doesn't scale (not inverse, close to no effect) with language training

Creating a swarm of robotic bees to either pollinate or spray pesticides

Create accessible synthesis of neuroscience insider knowledge

Conduct research on voice biomarkers, a promising early detection mechanism for mental illnesses, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, depression, and more.

Build a digital marketplace and management platform to empower smallholder farmers in Kenya by reducing post-harvest food loss

Upgrade YIMBY messaging

Publish a book on Egan education for parents

Weather futures market for forecasting, insurance, and climate engineering.

Apply particle physics clustering to embedding space of LLM

Fund a detour on my PhD to improve brute force statistical tooling

Write three articles that integrate meta-analysis and meta-science

Quantifying the costs of the Jones Act

Run a public online Turing Test with a variety of models and prompts

Run a self-help program on WhatsApp to reduce depression in low and middle-income countries

Build an app to track ones impact on animal cruelty

Year one of AI Safety Tokyo

Strengthening digital health information system for epidemic control in Pakistan

Online videos of Fluidity Forum 2024 talks

Scaling Legal Impact for Chickens to make factory-farm cruelty a liability

Distribute HPMOR copies in Bangalore, India

An online science platform

Convert a hybrid car to chip wood and generate electricity

Start an online editorial journal focusing on paradigm development in psychiatry and psychology

News through prediction markets

A spaced-repetition first gamified learning platform

Vegans should have the right to eat in public institutions : help us turn our right into a reality

Art and Technology XR game providing Ecological and Social-Emotional Learning

Replicate social science research

Original Research Study on Effective Communication With Political Staffers

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