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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Is There a Higher Value of Existential Risk?

People tend to focus more on existential risk if they believe it's high. So what might be going on there? I was thinking it could be something like the largeness of existential risk is a proxy for tractability. But i think that once you complicate this model a little bit more, and you allow this possibility that we're in a particularly risky time,. thenyou do get the kind of intuitive result out of it.

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