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Toby Ord is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University. His work focuses on the big picture questions facing humanity. What are the most important issues of our time? How can we best address them?
Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can , an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives ...
The many forms of hypercomputation. T Ord. Applied mathematics and computation 178 (1), 143-153. , 2006. 85. 2006. Probing the improbable: methodological challenges for risks with low probabilities and high stakes.
Mar 7, 2020 · Toby Ord is an Oxford academic and author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. In this podcast, he discusses the book's main themes, such as the risks and opportunities for humanity's long-term future, and how to reduce the chances of extinction.
Sep 6, 2017 · Dr Toby Ord is a philosopher and co-founder of the effective altruism community. He argues that the welfare of future generations should be our number one moral concern and explains why and how we can improve the world by shaping the long-term future.
Toby Ord. Hachette Books, Mar 24, 2020 - Philosophy - 480 pages. This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all...
Nov 21, 2020 · Toby Ord, a philosopher who studies our species’s “existential risk,” has been both frightened and encouraged by our response to the pandemic. By Corinne Purtill. November 21, 2020.
