One: Toby Ord on existential risks
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours
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What Are You Most Uncertain About?
Risk is the stuff that you can't say anything ing siting about, cause its very unclear. You have this one and 30 risk from other anthropic risks, which i guess it's like the unknown, unknown stuff that people might make. How do you come up with that ad? I guess this is almost, by definition, a tractability challenge. It's also a challenge in science as to where do hypotheses come from.? We do a lot othe work in actually even working out which thing to test before we even try to test it. This is our kind of famous unsolved epistemological problem in the philosophy of science.
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