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The Precipice collates a broad range of ideas, and surveys things from asteroid strikes, through to climate change, civilisational collapse, and risks from emerging technologies. There's a very interesting section on combining risk factors, and guidance on what some of the points with the highest leverage might be.
- The Precipice: ‘A book that seems made for the present moment ...
This is the Precipice, and how we respond to it will be the...
- The Precipice: ‘A book that seems made for the present moment ...
Mar 24, 2020 · The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Hardcover – Illustrated, March 24, 2020. This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning.
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- Toby Ord
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the 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. It argues that humanity faces unprecedented risks over the next few centuries and examines the moral significance of safeguarding humanity's future.
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Mar 5, 2020 · Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time.
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This is the Precipice, and how we respond to it will be the most crucial decision of our time. Oxford moral philosopher Toby Ord explores the risks to humanity's future, from the familiar man-made threats of climate change and nuclear war, to the potentially greater, more unfamiliar threats from engineered pandemics and advanced artificial ...
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Mar 24, 2020 · The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Toby Ord. Hachette Books, Mar 24, 2020 - Philosophy - 480 pages. This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting...
Oxford moral philosopher Toby Ord explores the risks to humanity's future, from the familiar man-made threats of climate change and nuclear war, to the potentially greater,...
