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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Is the Palier Climate Data Really Reliable?

Paleo climate data about the long distant past and what the climate was like, it is not that reliable. The rate of warming at the moment could well be unprecedented in the history of the earth. And there are certain effects, though, which could produce very large effects. So i have focused on the ones in the book, what could do the biggest things. Both of them contain far more carbon than all omissions so far, and, in fact, more carbon than the entire biosphere.

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