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Existential Risks: An OverviewFuture Day 2014
Patrick Robotham
March 1, 2014
Should we care about the future?
I Creditors care
I Politicians and businesses don’t
I Dynamic Inconsistency
I Future is uncertain
The case for reducing existential risk
The case for reducing existential risk
Existential risks kill most smiley faces!
Existential risk vs global catastrophic risk
Humanity can recover from catastrophe
Nuclear War
Existential Risk Orgs
I Lifeboat Foundation
I Future of Humanity Institute
I World Economic Forum
I International Risk Governance Council
I Center for the Study of Existential Risk
Further Reading
Bostrom, Nick, and Milan M. Cirkovic, eds. Global catastrophicrisks. Oxford University Press, 2011.Bostrom, Nick. ”Existential risks.” Journal of Evolution andTechnology 9 (2002).World Economic Forum. ”Global Risk Report 2014”
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