Forecasting and prioritizing risks seems to be what EA is allocating a lot of its resources towards, but is there a field in EA that works on global catastrophe preparation?
I imagine that we could come up with more things like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, in the context of optimizing the “re-boot of society” in case of a catastrophic event.
We certainly cannot predict and be prepared for all the events that will pose a threat to our civilization’s continued flourishing, so preparation could be a field to explore.
Protocol vs Platforms, in SaaS
In a lot of cases, protocols (e.g. Ethereum, Mastodon) are better than platforms (Central Banks, Twitter) when it comes to
I see organizations that are working on protocols in the scope of social networks. (e.g. Bluesky) But I’m not sure if the 2nd advantage I stated above is been explored more.
To expand on the above statement, I believe the protocol-first architecture could be applied to how SaaS is built as well. The de-facto way of building a SaaS is as follows.
The protocol-first way of building a SaaS might be something like
which is similar to how protocols in Web3.0 are built.
Protocol-first Shopify or Protocol-first Salesforce could be something intriguing.
I appreciate it if someone could share existing works similar to this. Feedback is welcome as well.
Thanks.