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Existential Risk and Existential Hope: Definitions

Posted on 6 February 20156 February 2015

In a recent report, FHI researchers examine the strengths and weaknesses of two existing definitions of existential risk, and suggest a new definition based on expected value. This leads to a parallel concept: ‘existential hope’, the chance of something extremely good happening. To read the full report, please see here.

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