EA Book+ Discussions - Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe

Name: EA Book+ Discussions - Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe
Start: 2024-10-26T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-26T17:00:00+02:00
Location: The Judgy Vegan - café & bar

Schedule

Sat Oct 26 2024 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

The Judgy Vegan - café & bar | Brussels, BU

📚 Join us for a discussion of Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe by Tobias Baumann
From 1984 to Black Mirror, we are all familiar with the tropes of dystopian science fiction. But what if worst-case scenarios could actually become reality? And what if we could do something now to put the world on a better path? In Avoiding the Worst, Tobias Baumann lays out the concept of risks of future suffering (s-risks) and argues that we have strong reasons to consider their reduction a top priority.
Both the book and audiobook are available for free:
📖 Book (100 pages)
https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/books/avoiding-the-worst-how-to-prevent-a-moral-catastrophe-by-tobias-baumann/
🎧 Audiobook (2h40)

We understand that you might not have time to read the entire book, so we’ve curated a list of shorter resources for you to read, listen to, or watch as an alternative:
🎧 (1h30) Podcast
Part 1: https://futureoflife.org/podcast/tobias-baumann-on-artificial-sentience-and-reducing-the-risk-of-astronomical-suffering/
Part 2: https://futureoflife.org/podcast/tobias-baumann-on-space-colonization-and-cooperative-artificial-intelligence/
📖 (10min) S-risks: An introduction https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/research/intro/
If you want to go a bit deeper:
📖 (5 min) A typology of s-risks
https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/research/a-typology-of-s-risks/
📖 (10 min) Arguments for and against a focus on s-risks https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/research/arguments-for-and-against-a-focus-on-s-risks/
📖 (10 min) How can we reduce s-risks? https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/research/how-can-we-reduce-s-risks/
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