1. Zipline looks interesting! I've added it to my target companies.
2. I'm a vegetarian and I feel happy to see innovations like Impossible Burgers. But if I understand correctly, biochemists can contribute most to solving these challenges.
3. Do you have more resources for the third bullet? I'm apprehensive of this since some of the existential risks might be speculative and unreal.
Happy to talk it over if any catch your fancy! My email is matt dot e dot fay at gmail dot com
2. There's certainly fewer, but still plenty in this field! For example, if you check the 80,000 Hours Job Board, both Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are hiring for software positions:
3. The x-risk work is definitely speculative, by definition honestly. If the first two are stocks and bonds, this is the angel investing of cause areas:
I've stayed away mostly because I was looking for tangibly impactful work (too removed for me), but there are really smart, kind folks making convincing arguments that this is the best use of your time and/or money. For example:
Software is used to help solve almost every single problem on the planet so I'm sure there's a way to help the problem of starvation in poorer countries. Not sure of any specific companies, but that doesn't mean there's no need for it.
Oh interesting I just got to know about w3w from this post. I agree with the criticisms about it not being an open standard.
But the idea sounds interesting. I won't be using it anytime soon, but I can see it can be useful to Ron Swanson who hides his gold arbitrarily under trees in forest. :)
