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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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The Most Influential Time in History Has Already Passed

When is the most influential time in history? Its when it's the most influentialtime in the future? Well, i still take some of the force of it, because it does end up saying that the chance was either 99 point nine nine nine percent, or something that happened in the past. And i actually don't believe it happened in the Past. So if if i did belive it hapened in the past, ii could retreat to saying, yes, ok, but we're only concerned about the future that we can effect. But there's uncertainty about when is the peak, kind of quite wild uncertainty about that. Maybe there was something like that going on. I know that

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