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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 ...
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?
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.
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.
Mar 7, 2020 · Dr Toby Ord. This week Oxford academic and advisor to 80,000 Hours Toby Ord released his new book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
Jul 30, 2013 · Toby co-founded Giving What We Can and the wider effective altruism movement. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. His current research is on the long-term future of humanity, and the risks which threaten to drastically limit our potential.
Sep 6, 2017 · That’s the view of Dr Toby Ord, a philosophy Fellow at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the effective altruism community. In this episode of the 80,000 Hours podcast Dr Ord makes the case that aiming for a positive long-term future is likely the best way to improve the world.
