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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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Is There a Future Arms Race?

There was no thers a moment when i was growing up, and a lot of online satellite came out, including satellites of melbourne. But sydney weren't able to see the satellite photos of their own city because it was still a target of the russian nuclear system. So we were at least a little bit relieved about that. I guess they have gugo maps now. Riht, we don't need to rely on this now. It's mainly that kind of residual type of risk which concern me. The fact that we went for a 38 years of nuclear weapons era before people even suggested nuclear winter means that there could well be things like that that we just haven't discovered

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