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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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How Long We've Been Around For?

We e we should find ourselves at the earliest possible time, but here we are. To just get lucky for an extra ten million centuries, i see, of risk. So this is evident against the idea that there were tons of possibilities for humanity to of and we're just the lucky ones. I think i get itt i'll see if i can find a blog post level explanation of it. Put myself and liss doesnd stick up falink to that in the shirnon. In the book en, i don't make any arguments that actively make use of it. But i may be vulnerable to if certain theories of anthropics turn out to be true,. then that challenges to

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