Sometimes I scroll social media (because I am yet weak) and I see rationalists raising Concerns about various news topics and current events.

Here’s a list of concerns and potential actions, including those I see as inadequate.

• Our institutions are losing trustworthiness and competence
  • Shout about the CDC on social media
  • #GhostTheNYT
  • Try to understand what leads to institutional success/failure
  • Try to advance incentive-compatible systems and social tech that can scale
• Freedom of speech is under attack! Gatekeepers! Reality czar! The Narrative!
  • Take traditional political action
  • Less twitter, more substack
  • Research and post about the economics and logistics of running your own servers.
  • Experiment with ring signatures?
• Social media is harming mental health, undermining individual & group epistemics, and enabling horrible actions in meatspace
  • Complain about it on social media in between dunking on your outgroup.
  • Await humanity’s inexorable slide down the fitness gradients toward memetic collapse.
  • Promote more group activities in your group house. Establish device-free zones.
  • Coordinate to stigmatize doomscrolling, hate-reading, and contempt addiction. While we’re at it, let’s stigmatize using Twitter at all.
• Large, free, liquid prediction markets cannot exist, supposedly due to the global influence of burdensome US trading regulations.
  • Traditional political action
  • Pay a competent YouTuber to make a really good explanatory video (series) about prediction markets.
  • Write a postmortem on Augur to help future attempts avoid the same pitfalls
  • Research and post about why prediction markets haven’t gotten big even where regulation is looser
  • Start up a competitor to Kalshi, and launch before they do
• Ongoing Uighur atrocity
  • Share an article about it once in a while
  • Take traditional political action, push for substantial international response
  • Make fewer purchases from companies that profit from the abuse of Uighurs