World Solve

The problem of natural disasters hitting with greater force continues to affect hundreds of millions of people and undermines progress on multiple Sustainable Development Goals. Existing responses remain fragmented, under-resourced and poorly adapted to local contexts. A strong solution must operate effectively under severe constraints of skilled personnel, infrastructure, electricity and connectivity. It should define clear measurable outcomes, identify possible unintended harms, and demonstrate how the intervention can be sustained by local institutions long after initial funding ends.

Homes that charge more for greater daylight access can deepen housing inequality and incentivise light-blocking in poorer units. The challenge is valuing natural illumination without turning it into a luxury surcharge that harms health equity.

It's often unclear exactly what data went into training a given AI model, making it difficult to audit for bias, copyright issues, or harmful content. Greater transparency into training data remains technically and legally unresolved.

Some countries publish detailed defense budgets while others keep most military spending secret, making it hard to assess true security risks or hold leaders accountable for spending choices. Greater transparency remains politically resisted in many places.

Many social systems implicitly reward productivity with greater respect or resources, yet most ethical traditions insist human worth shouldn't depend on usefulness alone. This unresolved tension underlies debates about disability, aging, and social value.

Various criteria like intelligence, capacity to suffer, or self-awareness have been proposed to justify different treatment, but none commands universal agreement. This unresolved question shapes debates over animal rights and factory farming.

Common intuition strongly favors family and community, while some ethical theories argue all suffering deserves equal moral weight regardless of relationship. Reconciling these competing pulls remains a central unresolved tension in ethics.

Some argue certain hardships build character or understanding in ways that make them valuable in hindsight, while others reject the idea that suffering is ever truly redeemed by its outcomes. This unresolved question shapes how we think about adversity.

Known as Goldbach's Conjecture, this simple-sounding statement has been checked for enormous numbers without exception, but never formally proven true for all numbers. It remains one of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics.