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Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority — Global Policy

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Key
bostrom2013existential
Authors
Bostrom, Nick
Issued
2013
Type
article-journal
Container
Global Policy
Volume
4
Issue
1
Pages
15-31
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Claims

  1. Bostrom argues that existential risks — those threatening the entire future of humanity — warrant extreme priority because even small reductions in such risk carry enormous expected value.
    "Many theories of value imply that even relatively small reductions in net existential risk have enormous expected value."
    Locator: page: 15 · Quote language: en
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