The Precipice

“Stan I've got two [ __ ] reading lists my brother and they've got five books at the top that the most important ones from the list of 100 chrisilex.com/books and chriswex.com/morebooks so that's 200 and there's a top five in both there's a top 10 … today it's read rising one that isn't in there is dungeoncrawler kl and”

“I'm pretty sure that the precipice came out in 2019. Uh so, before COVID and it in order to write the book and to have the research and to be able to get to the stage where Yeah, top left.”

“One of the other ones that's in there is The Precipice by Toby Ord. And that's all about existential risk...”

“So, if you were to rank Toby or wrote this great book called the precipice and he is from the future of humanity institute at Oxford.”

“there's a great book it's on on that reading list that I released I think it's the third book down the precipice by Toby OD which is a primer on existential risk”

“this book The the original conception by Toby OD in the precipice was written probably about six years ago”

“so his book The precipice that everybody should go and read it's my best primer on existential risk”

“and Toby's book The precipice which is great says it's got a one in one thousand or no sorry one in ten thousand chance over the next hundred years of being the end of human civilization”

“and then I read um the precipice by Toby ORD it's one of my five best books that I've ever read my entire life”

“it's nice to hear or to think that you've been focused so much on long-termism because I fell in love with the precipice by Toby OD that I know you work with and close friend of mine he he's phenomenal man”

“And Toby Ord's book, The Precipice, has this fantastic table where he breaks down all of the different likelihoods of the next 100 years of us going extinct due to every different type of super volcanoes and neutron stars and then anthropogenic risks as well.”

“But uh Toby Ord's The Precipice, which is my favorite book on existential risk, unbelievable.”

“man there was a brief period after i read the precipice twice back to back and i was already familiar with x-risks a lot but that that book just really really drove it home and it was it was like an existential crisis from an existential risk book”

“and this is something from reading toby ord's the precipice that really sort of force-fed me and understanding if you fully see yourself as a steward of humanity”

“have you read toby odds the precipice”

“as tobiod says in the precipice we are shuffling currently along this cliff edge”

“and then if you want if you want to terrify yourself about everything else as well as ai uh toby odds the precipice like that that's my perfect three book garage for existential risk”

“i mean dude i got i thought i knew existential risk and i read uh toby odds the precipice last year and that that book made me fully [ __ ] myself”

“the next hundred years really are as tobeyed calls it the precipice i think for humanity the potential advent of artificial general intelligence and misaligned super-intelligent agi”

“so this is from uh toby odds the precipice”

“i gotta give you another another thing uh that i've recently come across from stuart russell's human compatible which is about the control problem for artificial general intelligence very similar to super intelligence by nick bostrom or the precipice by toby ord if you're into existential risk”

“he wrote a book called the precipice which is on existential threats um and i sent him this email”

“and kind of sad it is melancholy isn't it like when i find myself i find myself feeling sort of very melancholic after i read stuff like super intelligence by nick bostrom or uh the precipice by toby ort”

“toby ord who is from the future of humanities institute at oxford um he wrote a book called the precipice and it's all about existential threat”

“one of my favorite books recently read the precipice by toby ord who i texted you about and said is he one of your lecturers at uni the press piece about existential rescues from the same future of humanity institute nick bostrom guy that i've read for tons and tons of time sits down with my favorite podcaster joe rogan”

“and like i'm reading the precipice by toby ord at the moment which is on existential risk it's a very good meta-analysis of all different types of existentialists”

“uh where number one among those which Toby talks about at length and where you know you can see the precipice and what we owe the future”

“one is the precipice by my colleague Toby or who I co-founded giving what we can with back in 2009 and it's on the topic of existential risks”

“therefore I would encourage reading the precipice by Toby or um which I mentioned in my recommended books”

“there's a great book by Toby ORD ORD who's an Oxford moral philosopher but he has worked a lot on existential risks so he did a book called The precipice right”

“and i have exactly the same reaction like everybody watching this should go read toby awards to precipice they should also read daniel ellsberg's book uh the doomsday machine about the risk of nuclear war throughout the 20th century”

“Tony Orb has a great book about this called the precipice where he the precipice for humanity is at one point we made technologies that we weren't sure whether or not they would destroy the earth or the entire universe”

“You know, Toby Ord has written this book, The Precipice, on this as well. I love it. It's one of my top five books ever.”

“um i've gone down the existential risk rabbit hole recently with toby ord's work”

“actually what what i end up reading later in in both ted koppel's book lights out and also in uh this book by toby oard at the university of oxford called the prep the precipice”

“the interesting thing that i learned upon reading toby odds the precipice which is going to contribute to a big chunk of my understanding”

“and the precipice by Toby old you've probably gone through that no I haven't”

“and i i the precipice toby also precipice is kind of the the um i guess the founding uh text of this”

“a lot of the listeners might be familiar with toby ord who i've been bringing up a fair bit recently he wrote a book called the precipice which is on existential threats”