Toby Ord

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11Future / Philosophy of life / Philosophy / Risk analysis / Human extinction / Risks to civilization /  humans /  and planet Earth / Nick Bostrom / Existentialism / Risk / Time / Futurology / Eschatology

Future of Humanity Institute – Technical Report #Existential Risk and Existential Hope: Definitions Owen Cotton-Barratt* & Toby Ord† We look at the strengths and weaknesses of two existing definitions of exis

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Language: English - Date: 2015-03-03 16:40:55
12Actuarial science / Probability interpretations / Probability theory / Emergency management / Risk / Probability / Statistical hypothesis testing / Uncertainty / Doomsday argument / Statistics / Probability and statistics / Science

Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes Toby Ord, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Anders Sandberg* Some risks have extremely high stakes. For example, a worldwide pandemic

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Source URL: www.fhi.ox.ac.uk

Language: English - Date: 2013-05-31 09:07:55
13Smallpox / International development / International economics / Aid effectiveness / International relations / Aid / Development

AID WORKS (ON AVERAGE) Toby Ord President, Giving What We Can Research Fellow, Oxford University

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Language: English - Date: 2013-03-15 10:26:52
14Global health / Medicine / Evaluation methods / Giving What We Can / Cost-effectiveness analysis / Cost–benefit analysis / Quality-adjusted life year / Pharmacoeconomics / Cost–utility analysis / Health economics / Health / Costs

center for global development essay The Moral Imperative toward Cost-Effectiveness in Global Health Toby Ord March 2013 www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail[removed]

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Language: English - Date: 2013-03-11 09:48:19
15Global health / Medicine / Evaluation methods / Giving What We Can / Cost-effectiveness analysis / Cost–benefit analysis / Quality-adjusted life year / Pharmacoeconomics / Cost–utility analysis / Health economics / Health / Costs

center for global development essay The Moral Imperative toward Cost-Effectiveness in Global Health Toby Ord March 2013 www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail[removed]

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Language: English - Date: 2013-03-19 21:01:09
16Charitable organization / Generosity / Sense / Social philosophy / Toby Ord / Heal the World Foundation / Philanthropy / Charities Aid Foundation / Charity

WHY WE GIVE Registered charity number[removed] About Charities Aid Foundation Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is an international charity registered in the UK. Its mission is to

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Source URL: www.good2give.org.au

Language: English - Date: 2015-02-23 23:02:17
17Human behavior / Knowledge / Framing / Critical thinking / Cognition / Status quo bias / Reversal test / Daniel Kahneman / Cognitive bias / Behavioral finance / Decision theory / Behavior

The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics* Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord I. INTRODUCTION Suppose that we develop a medically safe and affordable means of enhancing human intelligence. For concreteness,

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Language: English - Date: 2013-06-06 05:34:54
18Mathematical finance / Interest rates / Economic theories / Marketing / Actuarial science / Time preference / Discounting / Discount rate / Cost–benefit analysis / Economics / Finance / Business

Should we discount future health benefits when considering cost-effectiveness? Toby Ord and Robert Wiblin 1 Overview Quite often organisations, Giving What We Can included, must choose how much we

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Source URL: www.givingwhatwecan.org

Language: English - Date: 2014-02-20 11:19:58
19Social philosophy / Philosophy / SPENT / Value / Toby Ord / Heal the World Foundation / Axiology / Ethics / Philosophy of life

Toby is a postdoctoral research fellow in ethics at the University of Oxford. He was raised in Melbourne, Australia where he enrolled in a science degree at university. While intensely interested in science, he spent muc

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Language: English - Date: 2014-01-22 10:56:02
20Global health / Evaluation methods / Cost-effectiveness analysis / Cost–benefit analysis / Targeting / Pharmacoeconomics / Health economics / Costs / Health

The moral imperative towards cost-effectiveness Toby Ord* Cost-effectiveness is one of the most morally important issues in global health. This claim will be surprising to many, since conversations about the ethics of gl

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Language: English - Date: 2014-02-20 11:20:19
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