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Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can , an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as ...
Toby Ord is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University. His work focuses on the big picture questions facing humanity. What are the most important issues of our time? How can we best address them?
Peter Singer. About the author. Toby Ord is a trustee of 80,000 Hours and a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University. His work focuses on the big-picture questions facing humanity. What are the most important issues of our time? How can we best address them?
The many forms of hypercomputation. T Ord. Applied mathematics and computation 178 (1), 143-153. , 2006. 85. 2006. Probing the improbable: methodological challenges for risks with low probabilities and high stakes.
Sep 6, 2017 · That’s the view of Dr Toby Ord, a philosophy Fellow at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the effective altruism community. In this episode of the 80,000 Hours podcast Dr Ord makes the case that aiming for a positive long-term future is likely the best way to improve the world.
Mar 7, 2020 · Dr Toby Ord. This week Oxford academic and advisor to 80,000 Hours Toby Ord released his new book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. It’s about how our long-term future could be better than almost anyone believes, but also how humanity’s recklessness is putting that future at grave risk, in Toby’s reckoning a 1 in ...
Nov 21, 2020 · Toby Ord, a philosopher who studies our species’s “existential risk,” has been both frightened and encouraged by our response to the pandemic. By Corinne Purtill. November 21, 2020.
