The site is meant to be improved over time, so any comments that could help do that—nitpicky or not—are very welcome. I especially agree that all unnecessary crankiness should be eliminated.
Reg. .com or .org—If there is a clear sense that the .org would be more appropriate, I could look into obtaining that domain name and moving the site there. This should ideally be done soon, while the site is still young. So far, it seems nobody thinks .com is better all things considered, and some people think .org would be a slightly better; but I’d like a little more data before taking the plunge.
Reg. typos in FAQ—Will be corrected over time as they are discovered.
Reg. design—It could be better, but I’m not a web designer. If somebody here would make a nicer version, I’d gratefully replace the current design.
Reg. comments on draft paper ‘The Concept of Existential Risk’ - this is the main new original content. It is currently under review for a journal, and I might make some revisions when preparing the final version.
Much of the dispersion is caused by the lack of unrestricted funds (and lack of future funding guarantees). Since we don’t have enough funding from private philanthropists, we have to chase academic funding pots, and that then forces us to do some work that is less relevant to the important problems we would rather be working on. It would be unfortunate if potential private funders then looked at the fact that we’ve done some less-relevant work as a reason not to give.