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Feb 10, 2024 · New legislation threatens the functionality of local ethics panels around the state, and at least one sees it as a potential existential threat. The Jacksonville Ethics Commission plans to discuss ...
Oregon Government Ethics Commission. The OGEC office is open to the public during normal business hours, Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Many OGEC services remain online or can be accessed via email, fax, or telephone. Please contact our staff at (503) 378-5105 or mail@ogec.oregon.gov for assistance.
Nov 7, 2023 · Kieran Setiya, an MIT professor of philosophy who co-teaches a course on the ethics of climate change, offers a basic and a more nuanced definition. First: In the worst-case scenarios in scientists’ climate models, human-caused climate change is a threat to the continued existence of many species and to human society as we know it.
Oregon Government Ethics Laws prohibit public officials from using or attempting to use their official position or office to obtain financial gain or to avoid a financial detriment. In addition, it requires public disclosure of economic conflicts of interest. OGEC also enforces state laws which require lobbyists and the entities they represent ...
Dec 4, 2016 · Importantly, existential threat is a perceptual phenomenon, meaning that a veritable threat to existence does not have to be present for someone to experience a sense of existential threat. Often, there is a dialectical relationship between the perception of threat and the actual existence of a threat, but this gap between perception and ...
Aug 23, 2019 · Phil Torres. This paper examines and analyzes five definitions of ‘existential risk.’. It tentatively adopts a pluralistic approach according to which the definition that scholars employ should depend upon the particular context of use. More specifically, the notion that existential risks are ‘risks of human extinction or civilizational ...
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Jun 4, 2021 · The three policy products explored above (the Fourth National Climate Assessment, the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, and the final report of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence) are each imperfect examples of how the U.S. government has researched and addressed existential risk issues in the past, but there may be some ...
