A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying...
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Scenarios in which a global catastrophic risk creates harm have been widely discussed. Some sources of catastrophic risk are anthropogenic (caused by...
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value Global catastrophic risk – Hypothetical global-scale disaster risk Global Challenges Foundation – Swedish non-profit organization Global change –...
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Global Catastrophic Risks is a 2008 non-fiction book edited by philosopher Nick Bostrom and astronomer Milan M. Ćirković. The book is a collection of...
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Open Philanthropy (section Global Catastrophic Risks)
across two portfolios: Global Health and Wellbeing and Global Catastrophic Risks. A few areas fall outside these portfolios. The Global Health and Wellbeing...
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risks studies can be found in early 19th-century thought around human extinction and the more recent models and theories of global catastrophic risk that...
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Future of Humanity Institute (category Existential risk organizations)
2008 book Global Catastrophic Risks collects essays on a variety of such risks, both natural and anthropogenic. Possible catastrophic risks from nature...
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mitigate counterparty risk, which is particularly relevant in case of tail events. Black swan theory Global catastrophic risk Kolmogorov's zero–one law...
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Human extinction (section Risk estimates)
Ćirković, Global Catastrophic Risks was published in 2008, a collection of essays from 26 academics on various global catastrophic and existential risks. Toby...
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"Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks". In Nick Bostrom; Milan M. Ćirković (eds.). Global Catastrophic Risks. Oxford University Press. Dvorsky...
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