The Precipice
Toby Ord · first published 2020
Mentioned 30 time(s) by 19 guest(s): 6 recommend. · Suggest a correction · Suggest tags
Elizabeth Cox on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2024-11-21): recommend
“…I think the final push for me came from reading The Precipice in early 2020.…”
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Ezra Karger on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2024-09-04): mention
“…I am basing my forecasts on Toby Ord’s book, and he says that the risks are this.…”
Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
Ezra Karger on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2024-09-04): mention
“…First, Toby Ord had just published The Precipice, which is a book that lays out his personal forecasts of risks to humanity…”
Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
Ezra Karger on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2024-09-04): mention
“…So I mentioned The Precipice by Toby Ord. Toby Ord is a philosopher at Oxford, but he thinks a lot about these issues.…”
Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
Matt Clancy on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2024-05-23): mention
“…Then Toby Ord has this famous book, The Precipice, and in there he has some forecasts…”
Nathan Labenz on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023-12-22): mention
“…if you look at the Toby Ord analysis in The Precipice, AI is the biggest reason he thinks…”
Anders Sandberg on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023-10-06): mention
“…Toby touches on this very briefly in his book The Precipice, where he talks about how maybe…”
Joe Carlsmith on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2023-05-19): mention
“…There's this line from Seneca in The Precipice where he's like…”
Andreas Mogensen on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-09-08): mention
“…Though I think Toby Ord in The Precipice does take up this issue, and connects longtermist concerns…”
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Will MacAskill on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-08-05): recommend
“…One is The Precipice by my colleague, Toby Ord, who I co-founded Giving What We Can with…”
Will MacAskill on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-08-05): recommend
“…I’d encourage reading The Precipice by Toby Ord, which I mentioned in my recommended books.…”
Will MacAskill on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-05-23): mention
“…Toby’s book, The Precipice, at least the way I take it, focuses much more on existential risk…”
Habiba Islam on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2022-03-09): recommend
“…checking out a book like The Precipice, which goes through some of the arguments in favor of longtermism…”
Carl Shulman on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-10-05): mention
“…Toby Ord discusses some of these in his book. I had a bit of correspondence with him…”
Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Carl Shulman on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-10-05): recommend
“…I keep tapping Toby’s book because it does more than most to really lay out things with a clear taxonomy…”
Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Carl Shulman on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-10-05): mention
“…I’d say that I would fit with my colleague Toby Ord’s description in his book The Precipice in thinking that preventing existential risk is one of the great moral issues of our time.…”
Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Holden Karnofsky on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-08-19): mention
“…I think it’s called the ‘long reflection’ in Toby Ord’s book The Precipice.…”
Alexander Berger on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-07-12): mention
“…When you look at the chart in Toby Ord's book of his assessment of the various contributors to risk…”
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Christian Tarsney on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-05-05): mention
“…Toby Ord in The Precipice makes this point that well, past people are engaged in this great human project…”
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Mike Berkowitz on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-04-20): mention
“…Toby Ord's The Precipice covers a lot of similar material, though it's exclusively about threats to humanity's future…”
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Ezra Klein on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-03-20): recommend
“…I think one of the best parts of Toby’s book is the part looking at some of the pandemic threats…”
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Ezra Klein on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-03-20): mention
“…I really like Toby Ord, for instance, I had him on my show when his book came out.…”
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Ajeya Cotra on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2021-01-19): mention
“…like Toby Ord says in his recent book The Precipice, we felt that it was…”
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Ben Todd on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-09-21): mention
“…who's one of the creators of effective altruism and has also just written a book about existential risks…”
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Ben Todd on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-09-01): mention
“…he’s arguing in the next couple centuries is ‘The Precipice’…”
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Ben Todd on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-09-01): mention
“…you can almost see Toby, in his book, is going towards this position…”
Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong
Greg Lewis on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-04-17): mention
“…Toby Ord’s mentioned this in his book; the BWC, which is the treaty…”
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Greg Lewis on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-04-17): mention
“…I know Toby Ord talked about a lot in his book The Precipice…”
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Will MacAskill on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-01-24): mention
“…insofar as I was deferring to Toby and what it says in his book…”
Yew-Kwang Ng on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2018-07-26): recommend
“…Has a forthcoming book on this. I like his chapter eight, looking into the future.…”
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