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Existential risk
History of effective altruism
Information hazard
The Precipice
Atomically precise manufacturing
Climate engineering
Estimation of existential risk
Vulnerable world hypothesis
Macrostrategy
Toby Ord
Anthropogenic existential risk
Asteroids
251 posts
COVID-19 pandemic
Biosecurity
Vaccines
Pandemic preparedness
Global catastrophic biological risk
Research agendas, questions, and project lists
Megaprojects
Refuges
Biosurveillance
Journalism
Antibiotic resistance
1Day Sooner
32
Existential risk mitigation: What I worry about when there are only bad options
MMMaas
1d
2
31
Undesired dystopia: the parables of island rats and cut-throat capitalists
Will Aldred
3d
0
308
A Letter to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
John G. Halstead
27d
56
25
Sir Gavin and the green sky
Gavin
3d
0
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Announcing ERA: a spin-off from CERI
Nandini Shiralkar
7d
7
140
Review: What We Owe The Future
Kelsey Piper
29d
3
83
Beyond Simple Existential Risk: Survival in a Complex Interconnected World
Gideon Futerman
29d
65
241
Overreacting to current events can be very costly
Kelsey Piper
2mo
71
164
Lord Martin Rees: an appreciation
HaydnBelfield
1mo
18
111
A Theologian's Response to Anthropogenic Existential Risk
Fr Peter Wyg
1mo
17
33
Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
5
180
Most* small probabilities aren't pascalian
Gregory Lewis
4mo
20
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NASA will re-direct an asteroid tonight as a test for planetary defence (link-post)
Ben Stewart
2mo
14
24
X-risk Mitigation Does Actually Require Longtermism
𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆
1mo
6
389
Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
patio11
11d
8
113
What Rethink Priorities General Longtermism Team Did in 2022, and Updates in Light of the Current Situation
Linch
6d
8
85
EA's Achievements in 2022
ElliotJDavies
6d
7
195
Stop Thinking about FTX. Think About Getting Zika Instead.
jeberts
1mo
5
144
Delay, Detect, Defend: Preparing for a Future in which Thousands Can Release New Pandemics by Kevin Esvelt
Jeremy
1mo
7
76
Come get malaria with me?
jeberts
21d
4
11
COVID-19 in rural Balochistan, Pakistan: Two interviews from May 2020
NunoSempere
4d
2
34
Pandemic prevention as fire-fighting by Richard Williamson (Alvea.bio) for Works in Progress
Nick Whitaker
12d
1
160
Map of Biosecurity Interventions
James Lin
1mo
29
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Some research ideas in forecasting
Jaime Sevilla
1mo
5
14
Pandemic Preparedness: Stakeholders who influence politicians in the UK
Alexandra Malikova
12d
1
42
What are the most promising strategies for reducing the probability of nuclear war?
Sarah Weiler
1mo
1
206
List of Lists of Concrete Biosecurity Project Ideas
Tessa
5mo
5
35
Cruxes for nuclear risk reduction efforts - A proposal
Sarah Weiler
1mo
0