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Tobias Baumann Appears on the Sentientism Podcast

Alistair Webster — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:57:52 +0000

CRS co-founder and researcher, Tobias Baumann, has appeared on the Sentientism Podcast for a discussion with host Jamie Woodhouse.

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Avoiding the Worst Audiobook Available Now

Alistair Webster — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:42:43 +0000

CRS Co-Founder Tobias Baumann’s introduction to s-risks, Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe is now available as an audiobook. Professionally voiced by Adrian Nelson, the full audio can be listened to on Audible or there is a free video version now available on the new CRS YouTube channel. A summary of Avoiding […]

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Tobias Baumann Discusses S-Risks & Avoiding the Worst on FLI Podcast

Alistair Webster — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:12:42 +0000

Center for Reducing Suffering Researcher and Co-Founder Tobias Baumann has appeared on the Future of Life Institute podcast to discuss S-Risks (risks of astronomical future suffering), suffering-focused ethics, and his book Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe. In the first part of a wide-ranging conversation with the podcast’s host Gus Docker, Tobias […]

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New book on s-risks

Tobias Baumann — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:48:26 +0000

I have just published my new book on s-risks, titled Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe. You can find it on Amazon, read the PDF version, or listen to a provisional audio version. The book is primarily aimed at longtermist effective altruists. I wrote it because I feel that s-risk prevention is a somewhat neglected priority area in […]

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S-risk impact distribution is double-tailed

Magnus Vinding — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:36:25 +0000

Summary Discussions about s-risks often rest on a single-tailed picture, focused on how much suffering human civilization could risk causing. But when we consider the bigger picture, including s-risks from alien civilizations, we see that human civilization’s expected impact on s-risks is in fact double-tailed. This likely has significant implications. For instance, it might mean […]

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On fat-tailed distributions and s-risks

Magnus Vinding — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 21:40:35 +0000

Summary It is sometimes suggested that since the severity of many kinds of moral catastrophes (e.g. wars and natural disasters) fall along a power-law distribution, efforts to reduce suffering should focus on “a few rare scenarios where things go very wrong”. While this argument appears quite plausible on its face, it is in fact a […]

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