Nick Beckstead Gives Lecture on Shaping the Far Future

On Thursday 15 August, GCRI hosted an online lecture by Nick Beckstead entitled, ‘On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future’ (see the pre-lecture announcement). Beckstead recently finished a PhD at the Philosophy Department at Rutgers University, where he focused on normative philosophy and normative ethics, applied ethics, and decision theory. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Oxford University Future of Humanity Institute. The lecture is based on Beckstead’s dissertation of the same title, which focuses on the topics of existential risk, …

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Organization Directory Updates

Grant Wilson and I have gone through and updated the GCR organization directory. The directory now contains 130 organizations. The new entries are below. Please let us know if we may be missing any organizations.

Reflecting back on the seven months since the directory was originally published, it has proved quite useful. it has been used for job searches, general networking, and just to get a sense for the scope of the GCR community. This has been Exhibit A in our effort to dispel the somewhat …

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New Time Zones Resource

GCRI is pleased to announce the publication of its newest resource for the global catastrophic risk community, a time zone coordination guide. This resource is helpful for anyone who needs to coordinate activities across multiple time zones around the world, whether for global catastrophic risk or for other purposes.

Global catastrophic risk is of course an inherently global issue. Likewise addressing it benefits from contributions from around the world. GCRI is increasingly active in facilitating a global conversation about global catastrophic risk. Sometimes these conversations are …

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New Organization Directory Resource

GCRI is pleased to announce the publication of its newest resource for the global catastrophic risk community, a directory of GCR organizations. The resource features 117 organizations, each with an annotation describing the organization.

The organizations listed here work on many different aspects of GCR. The organizations cover many specific GCRs and many approaches to addressing the risks. There are also many types of organizations, including think tanks, university research groups, government agencies, and private foundations. The organizations come from many different countries, though most are …

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