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Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can , an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as ...
Toby Ord is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University. His work focuses on the big picture questions facing humanity. What are the most important issues of our time? How can we best address them?
The many forms of hypercomputation. T Ord. Applied mathematics and computation 178 (1), 143-153. , 2006. 85. 2006. Probing the improbable: methodological challenges for risks with low probabilities and high stakes.
Toby Ord is a philosopher and author of The Precipice, a book that explores the science and morality of the risks that threaten human extinction. He is also a trustee of 80,000 Hours and a co-founder of the effective altruism movement.
Sep 6, 2017 · Dr Toby Ord is a philosopher and co-founder of the effective altruism community. He argues that the welfare of future generations should be our number one moral concern and explains why and how we can improve the world by shaping the long-term future.
Nov 21, 2020 · Annals of Inquiry. How Close Is Humanity to the Edge? Toby Ord, a philosopher who studies our species’s “existential risk,” has been both frightened and encouraged by our response to the...
Jul 30, 2013 · Toby Ord is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University and a co-founder of the effective altruism movement. He donates most of his income to the most impactful charities and writes about the future of humanity and its risks.
