4. Our final century?
Humanity appears to face existential risks: a chance that we'll destroy our long-term potential. We’ll examine why existential risks might be a moral priority, and explore why they are so neglected by society. We’ll also look into one of the major risks that we might face: a human-made pandemic, worse than COVID-19.
Alongside this we'll introduce you to the concepts of neglectedness, marginal thinking, and explore whether you could lose all of your impact by missing one crucial consideration.
Introduction
Existential risks
(If possible, read "The Precipice, Ch. 2" otherwise read "The case for reducing existential risk.")
Thinking on the margin
The ITN framework
(the second post is an example of this framework applied)
Risks from pandemics
Strategies for improving biosecurity
Crucial considerations
More to explore