In my opinion, the best discussion of the optimal temporal allocation of work aimed at reducing existential risk is to be found in these two essays:
Cotton-Barratt, Owen (2015) Allocating risk mitigation across time, technical report #2015-2, Future of Humanity Institute.
Ord, Toby (2014) The timing of labour aimed at reducing existential risk, Future of Humanity Institute, July 3.
Those definitely help, thanks! Any additional answers are still useful and I don’t want to discourage answers from people who haven’t read the above. For example we may have learned some empirical things since these analyses came out.
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In my opinion, the best discussion of the optimal temporal allocation of work aimed at reducing existential risk is to be found in these two essays:
Cotton-Barratt, Owen (2015) Allocating risk mitigation across time, technical report #2015-2, Future of Humanity Institute.
Ord, Toby (2014) The timing of labour aimed at reducing existential risk, Future of Humanity Institute, July 3.
Those definitely help, thanks! Any additional answers are still useful and I don’t want to discourage answers from people who haven’t read the above. For example we may have learned some empirical things since these analyses came out.