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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

CHAPTER

The Potential of Humanity

A million years ago, we could oud have been anyone. We opened up this big future by developing in serner way. It is a reason that at would account in favour of something happening about it. There are who lot of reasons to suggest a kind of market failure whereby governments put in a tiny fraction of the work that they optimately should put in. And so that's a reason why there might be problems when you consider people in future gen on now. But i don't find that compelling, and therai no chance that we'll just look at current issues enly. I'm not claiming that here, merely claiming that we'll undervalue it by some immense factor,. So

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