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Claim ID
bostrom-xrisk-value
Assertion
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.
Quote
Many theories of value imply that even relatively small reductions in net existential risk have enormous expected value.
Quote language
en
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page: 15
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