Last year I posted about my idea for Black Swan Philanthropy, which would be focused on funding projects aimed at preventing or coping with very low probability events that would have cataclysmic outcomes for humanity. The idea has taken on quite a bit more shape since then, thanks to helpful discussions with friends. As two examples, Fred suggested in a comment to the original post the ability to just contribute to an overall fund and Steven Johnson had a bunch of wonderful ideas for how to ...

Last year I posted about my idea for Black Swan Philanthropy, which would be focused on funding projects aimed at preventing or coping with very low probability events that would have cataclysmic outcomes for humanity. The idea has taken on quite a bit more shape since then, thanks to helpful discussions with friends. As two examples, Fred suggested in a comment to the original post the ability to just contribute to an overall fund and Steven Johnson had a bunch of wonderful ideas for how to ...