existential risk
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existential risk is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 18, 2021 and October 17, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Future Perfect - Vox’s journalism team covering … existential risk”; “He helped define ‘existential risk’, popularize fears of malevolent superintelligence”. It most often appears alongside effective altruism, 23andme, Amish.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 18, 2021
- Last seen: October 17, 2024
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- effective altruism (2 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- Amish (1 shared issues)
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- Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (1 shared issues)
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- Bostrom (1 shared issues)
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- Byrne Hobart (1 shared issues)
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- Corsica (1 shared issues)
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- cricket (1 shared issues)
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- David Pearce (1 shared issues)
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- Deep Utopia (1 shared issues)
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- Deep Utopia (1 shared issues)
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- Deep Utopia (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
4: Future Perfect - Vox’s journalism team covering effective altruism, existential risk, and related topics - is hiring (for remote work). You would get to work with my friend and housemate Kelsey Piper, along with a bunch of other people who I am assured are also great. Read more and apply here.
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Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom got famous for asking “What if technology is really really bad?” He helped define ‘existential risk’, popularize fears of malevolent superintelligence, and argue that we were living in a ‘vulnerable world’ prone to physical or biological catastrophe.