User:Brian Tomasik/Pages to create or improve

This is a list of pages that Brian Tomasik would like to see created, improved, or just refined.

• Creating a page means it doesn't already exist yet. (But you should double-check this yourself, since the page may have been created since I wrote this.)
• Improving a page means it's not currently in great shape.
• Refining a page means it's already good but could always use more information.

This list just scratches the surface of possibilities. There's basically no limit to places you can add important information (or clean up existing information). I'd recommend focusing on whatever topic you care a lot about and/or happen to be reading papers about, rather than writing an article just for the sake of writing an article.

Differential progress: I also recommend focusing on contributions in the realm of social science, ethics, humanities, or popular science rather than on technical details of fields like artificial intelligence. Highly technical contributions may accelerate the risks in addition to helping reduce the risks of disruptive technologies.

Niche articles: Vipul Naik recommends avoiding high-level pages that tend to be edited a lot and instead seeking more niche articles. Thus, when I recommend an article for refinement, I don't necessarily mean focusing on that article itself but rather the kinds of articles in its general neighborhood.

Insects

Create

• Ethical views on insects (my ideas for starting are here)

Refine

• Pest insect population dynamics
• Welfare of farmed insects
• Pain in invertebrates
• Insect euthanasia

AI ethics

Improve

• Ethics of artificial intelligence
• Recursive self-improvement
• Roboethics
• Machine ethics
• Differential technological development

Refine

• Mind uploading#Issues
• Technological singularity
• Military robot#Effects and impact

Animal welfare

Create

• Controlled-atmosphere killing: There's already a section about this, but it could be expanded to a full article. Here is a draft beginning such a page, but it needs inline citations for each sentence and many more references. Perhaps that draft should just be discarded and the article started from scratch.

Improve

• Animal ethics
• Crustastun
• Animal euthanasia
• Humane Slaughter Act#Criticism of the HMSLA
• Welfare vs. abolition debates: Animal protectionism vs. Abolitionism (animal rights)

Refine

• Fish welfare at slaughter
• Pain in crustaceans
• Pain in fish
• Foie gras
• Islamic and Jewish slaughter
• Animal welfare
• Articles on any type of animal product

Other tech ethics

Improve

• Ethics of technology
• Technoethics

Refine

• Impact of nanotechnology
• Societal impact of nanotechnology
• The Transparent Society
• DARPA, IARPA, etc.

Anthropics

Refine

• Doomsday argument (including discussion of "universal doomsday" and the effect of multiple civilizations)
• Self-Indication Assumption Doomsday argument rebuttal
• Fermi paradox

International relations

Improve

• Correlates of War
• Arms race (a weak start here)
• Anti-nationalism
• Audience cost

Refine

• Democratic peace theory
• World government
• Any of these arms-control agreements
• Any good arms-control organizations (more)
• Potential superpowers (low pri)
• Violence

Moral psychology

Improve

• Joshua Greene (psychologist)
• Paul Bloom (psychologist)

Refine

• Ingroups and outgroups
• Dehumanization
• Empathy
• Empathic concern
• Evaluative diversity

Influences on history

Refine

• Social movement
• Social movement theory
• Economic determinism
• Dual inheritance theory

Philanthropy

Refine

• Matching gift