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    Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge...
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  • at Oxford University in 2009 by the philosopher Toby Ord, physician-in-training Bernadette Young (Ord's wife), and fellow philosopher William MacAskill...
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  • Future of Humanity is a 2020 non-fiction book by the Australian philosopher Toby Ord, a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford...
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  • in 2011. Philosophers influential to the movement include Peter Singer, Toby Ord, and William MacAskill. What began as a set of evaluation techniques advocated...
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    staff included futurist Anders Sandberg and Giving What We Can founder Toby Ord. Sharing an office and working closely with the Centre for Effective Altruism...
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    The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, philosopher Toby Ord describes longtermism as follows: "longtermism ... is especially concerned...
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    from 26 academics on various global catastrophic and existential risks. Toby Ord's 2020 book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity argues...
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    understanding has been carried out by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord, and suggests "a substantial ex ante probability of there being no other...
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    a program on "existential hope", pushing forward the concept coined by Toby Ord and Owen Cotton-Barrett in their 2015 paper "Existential risk and Existential...
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    Greaves Holden Karnofsky William MacAskill Dustin Moskovitz Yew-Kwang Ng Toby Ord Derek Parfit Peter Singer Cari Tuna Eliezer Yudkowsky Organizations 80...
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    Risk and the Future of Humanity – 2020 book about existential risks by Toby Ord Timeline of the far future – Scientific projections regarding the far future...
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  • and digital minds. AI may also drastically improve humanity's future. Toby Ord considers the existential risk a reason for "proceeding with due caution"...
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    foreseeable future is anthropogenic; that is, arising from human activity." Toby Ord argues in The Precipice that some such risks include unaligned artificial...
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  • context of the bioethics of human enhancement by Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord. Bostrom and Ord introduced the reversal test to provide an answer to the question...
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    effective altruism community. It was founded in 2012 by William MacAskill and Toby Ord, both philosophers at the University of Oxford. CEA is part of Effective...
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  • English politician Robert Ord (1700–1778), British lawyer and politician Toby Ord (born 1979), Australian philosopher William Ord (1781–1855), English politician...
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  • philosophers (including Torbjörn Tännsjö, Yew-Kwang Ng, Hilary Greaves and Toby Ord) have agreed that avoiding the repugnant conclusion is not a necessary...
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  • 0% American businessman Yann Le Cun <0.01% Chief AI Scientist at Meta Toby Ord 10% Australian philosopher and author of The Precipice Demis Hassabis >0%...
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  • could improve humanity's future and help reduce other existential risks, Toby Ord calls these existential risks "an argument for proceeding with due caution"...
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  • ISSN 0020-174X. Ord 2013. Pearce & A response to Toby Ord's essay. Contestabile & Why I'm (Not) a Negative Utilitarian – A Review of Toby Ord's Essay. Vinding...
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    actors, directed at the making of profit and/or the regulation of action. Toby Ord believed that George Orwell's fears of totalitarianism constituted a notable...
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    Vincent C. Müller. With nanotechnologist Eric Drexler and philosopher Toby Ord in 2018 he published a paper entitled "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox". The...
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    characterized as eucatastrophes. Longtermists such as Owen Cotton-Barratt and Toby Ord have adopted the word to refer to any hypothetical future transition that...
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  • importance than the same harm occurring to one identifiable person. Philosopher Toby Ord argues that scope neglect can explain why the moral importance of existential...
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    they would reproduce and their kind would destroy humanity. According to Toby Ord, the idea that an AI takeover requires robots is a misconception driven...
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    Greaves Holden Karnofsky William MacAskill Dustin Moskovitz Yew-Kwang Ng Toby Ord Derek Parfit Peter Singer Cari Tuna Eliezer Yudkowsky Organizations 80...
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    YouTuber CGP Grey created an animated version of the story. With philosopher Toby Ord, he proposed the reversal test in 2006. Given humans' irrational status...
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    be relatively short. An analysis by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and Toby Ord suggests "a substantial ex ante (predicted) probability of there being...
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  • effective altruism and existential risk, including the work of philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill who are trying to devise human and machine strategies...
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  • Paths, Dangers, Strategies. The strategy was also endorsed by philosopher Toby Ord in his 2020 book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity...
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