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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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How the Future Could Go

The last third of the book is a trenor paint of vision for how the future could go. It's written in a much more elegant and poetic style than thing i could ever write in, or i guess that most books on this topic are written. In particular, i didn't want to be just making random predictions of the kind of thing that, after thinking about the stuff for 20 years, I happened to believe might be likely. Rather than get into the nitty-grubbing snaries of an exciting future, i wanted it to avoid them.

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