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Parent Topic: Existential risk

Human extinction is the destruction of all members of the species Homo sapiens.

In Toby Ord's typology, human extinction constitutes one of the three main types of existential catastrophe.^[1]

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34Not all x-risk is the same: implications of non-human-descendants

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85Linkpost for various recent essays on suffering-focused ethics, priorities, and more

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76Things usually end slowly

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38“Existential Risk” is badly named and leads to narrow focus on astronomical waste

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34Arguments for Why Preventing Human Extinction is Wrong

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24Preventing human extinction

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12Extinction risk reduction and moral circle expansion: Speculating suspicious convergence

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58Questioning the Value of Extinction Risk Reduction

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55Longtermism, risk, and extinction

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21We Should Give Extinction Risk an Acronym

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16Probability of extinction for various types of catastrophes

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12Formalizing Extinction Risk Reduction vs. Longtermism

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