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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

Toby Ord

Philosophy / Existential risk

Ord's careful estimation of the threats - nuclear, biological, AI - that could end humanity's long future, and a moral case for taking them seriously. The book sits squarely in the existential-risk and longtermism literature Vitalik draws on when he writes about d/acc and defensive accelerationism.

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