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Mar 29·edited Mar 29Liked by Nathaniel Cooke

Brilliant summary, I wish everyone in the field and concerned about X-risk/GCR/AI/the future knew about all these. I will be directing people to this post.

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100 % agree with Juan here. Would be great if such a text would find its way into EA introduction about global catastrophic risk etc..

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Strangely enough this is actually an elaborated version of Understanding Risk, a google doc I used to introduce risk models/theories to participants in my GCR introductory course, X-Risk Fundamentals.

I've run it for various student groups/summer fellowships, but never got around to publishing it properly due to time pressure & lack of funding opportunities for heterodox/critical x-risk work.

More than happy to chat if you're interested!

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Happy to hear that this has reached some people in the GCR space :)

I wrote you an email to schedule a chat.

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Hi Nuño,

Relatedly, there is the Australian government futures primer (https://nsc.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/2024-07/Australian%20Government%20Futures%20Primer_NSC-compressed_1.pdf). FWIW, I have heard from a foresight expert it is the best overview around.

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