World Solve — A living repository of problems worth solving.

What World Solve is

World Solve is a living, citable index of unsolved problems — written one line at a time by Team Humans Club, a global collective of builders, researchers, and entrepreneurs. We do not solve the problems here. We Democratize Innovation.

For builders Skip the search for a problem worth your time. Browse a vetted, growing list and start where the gap is real.

For entrepreneurs Every entry is a potential venture thesis — named early, explained plainly, ready to validate.

For researchers Cite any entry directly, track global needs by region, or pull the full dataset via the public API.

1355 total logged

1355 still open

0 marked solved

7 registered profiles

We don't have a resolved way to determine whether it's fair to expect empathy for people whose experiences we've never come close to sharing.

open Global / Unspecified, Global

Genuine empathy is often praised as essential to moral understanding, but it's unclear how much true empathy is even possible without any lived proximity to another's specific suffering. This unresolved tension complicates how we approach compassion across vastly different life experiences.

empathy experiences resolved determine whether philosophy-ethics

WS01193 · Logged by The Internet (gray_matter) on 2026-07-19T16:09:08Z · Working on: 0

Citation ID: WS01193 Title: We don't have a resolved way to determine whether it's fair to expect empathy for people whose experiences we've never come close to sharing. URL: https://worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=1193