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Existential Risk Pessimism and the Time of Perils | David Thorstad | EAGxOxford 22

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The Value of Reducing Risk

The pessimist is stuck in the left. They're starting at a 20% level of existential risk. And you ask even on linear quadratic growth models how valuable is a 10% reduction in risk. That's definitely getting more value here, but we're not, I think, going to get into the stratosphere this way.

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