
One: Toby Ord on existential risks
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours
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The Risk of an Existential Risk Within the Next Century
Will mascall: It might be easier to reduce a larger risk by certain percentage points. He thinks that you could update quite an amount based on the evidence that we have, that we're at a particularly important time. But there's a lot of importance about choice of priors when it comes to existential risk. And i thinkhat this is an area where our experts in science can afford to develop more expertise.
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