Brazil has been dealing with massive criminal wildfires for the last few weeks, and the air quality is record-breakingly bad. Besides other obvious issues (ineffective government response in going after the criminals setting fires, climate change making everything worse), hardly anyone is talking about how to deal with the immediate air quality problem. It's a bit bizarre. People aren't widely adopting PFF2 masks and air purifiers. These remain somewhat niche topics even though pretty much everyone is suffering. To be fair, there are occasional media reports and government alerts about how to deal with the situation, but these feel too little, and one only gets them if actively looking for them. 1. It's affecting tens of millions of people (scale ✓) 2. Barely anyone is really addressing it (neglectedness ✓) 3. We have simple solutions that could help a lot (tractability ✓) It feels like there's potential for some serious impact if one approaches this right. It may be a severe case of availability bias, but all this is making me value air quality more as an EA cause area.

Worth having some sort of running and contributable-to tab for open questions? Can also encourage people to flag open questions they see in posts.

The original website for Students for High Impact Charities (SHIC) at https://shicschools.org is down (You can find it in the Wayback Machine), but the program scripts and slides they used in high schools are still available at their google drive link at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_2KLuBlcCg4QWtrYW43UGcwajQ Could potentially be a valuable EA community building resource

I feel like being exposed early on to longer form GovAI-type reports has made me set the bar high for writing my thoughts out in short form, which really sucks in terms of an output standpoint.

Would you consider adding your ideas for 2 minutes?  - Creating an comprehensive overview of AI x-risk reduction strategies ------ Motivation: To identify the highest impact strategies for reducing the existential risk from AI, it’s important to know what options are available in the first place. I’ve just started creating an overview and would love for you to take a moment to contribute and build on it with the rest of us! Here is the work page: https://workflowy.com/s/making-sense-of-ai-x/NR0a6o7H79CQpLYw Some thoughts on how we collaborate: * Please don’t delete others’ bullet points; instead, use the comment feature to suggest changes or improvements. * If you’re interested in discussing this further, feel free to add your name and contact details here. I may organize a follow-up discussion.