Forethought Foundation
The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research (FF) is a global priorities research center.
Further reading
Forethought Foundation (2021) About us, Forethought Foundation.
The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research (FF)(FF) is global priorities research center.
The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research (FF) is a cause prioritizationglobal priorities research research center with a special focus on longtermism. Itcenter.
FF was founded in 2018 by William MacAskill. It is part of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and works closely with the Global Priorities Institute.
As of March 2022, FF has three primary research areas: longtermism,[1] mitigation of global catastrophic risk,[2] and affecting the long-run future.[3]
Further reading
Forethought Foundation (2021) About us, Forethought Foundation.
Related entries
existential risk | global catastrophic risk | global priorities research | longtermism
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Forethought Foundation (2021) Longtermism, Forethought Foundation.
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Forethought Foundation (2021) Mitigating catastrophic risk, Forethought Foundation.
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Forethought Foundation (2021) Affecting the very long run, Forethought Foundation.
Hi Michael. Thanks for your contribution. I slightly tweaked the original version of the entry to reflect the quote you added. In general, I think it's preferable to have a description of an organization's mission than a quote from their mission statement. I've also turned the links pointing to external websites into internal links, to conform to our general policy of including only internal links in the main body and relegating external links to the 'Bibliography' and 'External links' sections (mirroring Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias). Given the presence of these internal links, it was no longer necessary to have them again under 'See also'. Feel free to revert any of these changes if they don't make sense to you.
I am in the process of writing an official 'style guide' so as to make all of this less confusing.
The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research "aims to promote academic work that addresses the question of how to use our scarce resources to improve the world by as much as possible. [They] are especially interested in the idea that the primary determinant of the value of our actions today is how those actions influence the very long-run future. [...]
The Forethought Foundation is a projectcause prioritization research center with a special focus on longtermism. It was founded in 2018 by William MacAskill. It is part of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and works in close collaborationclosely with the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University." (.
External links
See also CentreForethought Foundation for Effective Altruism, Global Priorities Institute, Global Priorities Research, and Longtermism (Philosophy). Official website.
Thanks! Shall do. Maybe that should be suggested as a general thing on one or both of Aaron’s recent posts related to wiki only tags?
I.e., these ones:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9DD4xmbewP6SPsHsf/a-partial-list-of-wiki-only-tags
Fixed. In case you notice a wiki-only tag that should be a regular tag, just send us a message and we can fix it.
After making this tag, I saw that there was already a wiki-only tag for the Forethought Foundation. (Apparently the wiki-only tags don't appear on the Tags Portal, so my search there missed it.) But I still think it's worth having an actual tag for the Forethought Foundation, since it seems useful to have Forethought-relevant Forum posts tagged and collected. So I propose keeping both tags until the wiki-only tags are made usable in the regular way or the two tags are merged or something.
Hi Michael. Thanks for your contribution. I slightly tweaked the original version of the entry to reflect the quote you added. In general, I think it's preferable to have a description of an organization's mission than a quote from their mission statement. I've also turned the links pointing to external websites into internal links, to conform to our general policy of including only internal links in the main body and relegating external links to the 'Bibliography' and 'External links' sections (mirroring Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias). Given th...
The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research "aims to promote academic work that addresses the question of how to use our scarce resources to improve the world by as much as possible. [They] are especially interested in the idea that the primary determinant of the value of our actions today is how those actions influence the very long-run future. [...]
The Forethought Foundation is a project of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and works in close collaboration with the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University." (source)
See also Centre for Effective Altruism, Global Priorities Institute, Global Priorities Research, and Longtermism (Philosophy).
Those changes make sense to me.
I did wonder about the internal links and the duplication of them as "see also". My main rationale was simply that just copying from the org's site was the fastest way for me to make the tag, and other people could adjust it later if that'd improve it, so I'm glad you did so!
Yeah, a style guide sounds useful :)