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Denkenberger🔸

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Dr. David Denkenberger co-founded and is a director at the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED.info) and donates half his income to it. He received his B.S. from Penn State in Engineering Science, his masters from Princeton in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Building Systems Program. His dissertation was on an expanded microchannel heat exchanger, which he patented. He is an associate professor at the University of Canterbury in mechanical engineering. He received the National Merit Scholarship, the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, is a Penn State distinguished alumnus, and is a registered professional engineer. He has authored or co-authored 156 publications (>5600 citations, >60,000 downloads, h-index = 38, most prolific author in the existential/​global catastrophic risk field), including the book Feeding Everyone no Matter What: Managing Food Security after Global Catastrophe. His food work has been featured in over 25 countries, over 300 articles, including Science, Vox, Business Insider, Wikipedia, Deutchlandfunk (German Public Radio online), Discovery Channel Online News, Gizmodo, Phys.org, and Science Daily. He has given interviews on 80,000 Hours podcast (here and here) and Estonian Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WGBH Radio, Boston, and WCAI Radio on Cape Cod, USA. He has given over 80 external presentations, including ones on food at Harvard University, MIT, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Cornell University, University of California Los Angeles, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Lab, Imperial College, Australian National University, and University College London.

ALLFED’s 2025 Highlights

JuanGarcia27 Nov 2025 10:21 UTC
56 points
2 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Uni­verse can’t be a simu­la­tion?

Denkenberger🔸10 Nov 2025 20:00 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Polls on De/​Ac­cel­er­at­ing AI

Denkenberger🔸9 Aug 2025 2:01 UTC
32 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Grate­ful for Job Choice

Denkenberger🔸21 Jul 2025 1:42 UTC
127 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Re­lo­ca­tion triggers

Denkenberger🔸14 Jun 2025 6:36 UTC
50 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Pro­tect­ing against vi­tal worker short­ages in ex­treme pandemics

jamesmulhall🔹9 May 2025 19:17 UTC
41 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

ALLFED emer­gency ap­peal: Help us raise $800,000 to avoid cut­ting half of programs

Denkenberger🔸16 Apr 2025 21:33 UTC
201 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

How much money should we be sav­ing for re­tire­ment?

Denkenberger🔸2 Mar 2025 6:21 UTC
22 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

ALLFED’s 2024 Highlights

JuanGarcia18 Nov 2024 11:34 UTC
44 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

ALLFED’s 2023 Highlights

Sonia_Cassidy1 Dec 2023 0:47 UTC
61 points
5 comments27 min readEA link

In­fo­graph­ics of the Re­port food se­cu­rity in Ar­gentina in the event of an Abrupt Re­duc­tion of Sun­light Sce­nario (ASRS)

JorgeTorresC31 Jul 2023 19:36 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­search find­ings pre­sen­ta­tion: “Food se­cu­rity in Ar­gentina in an Abrupt Sun­light Re­duc­tion Sce­nario (ASRS)”.

Roberto Tinoco27 Apr 2023 22:48 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­port: Food Se­cu­rity in Ar­gentina in the event of an Abrupt Sun­light Re­duc­tion Sce­nario (ASRS)

JorgeTorresC27 Apr 2023 21:00 UTC
66 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
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2022 ALLFED highlights

Ross_Tieman28 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC
85 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Mul­ti­ple high-im­pact PhD stu­dent positions

Denkenberger🔸19 Nov 2022 0:02 UTC
32 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Graph of % of tasks AI is su­per­hu­man at?

Denkenberger🔸15 Nov 2022 5:59 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

2021 ALLFED Highlights

Ross_Tieman17 Nov 2021 15:24 UTC
45 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

ALLFED 2020 Highlights

AronM19 Nov 2020 22:06 UTC
51 points
5 comments26 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble way of re­duc­ing great power war prob­a­bil­ity?

Denkenberger🔸28 Nov 2019 4:27 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

ALLFED 2019 An­nual Re­port and Fundrais­ing Appeal

AronM23 Nov 2019 2:05 UTC
42 points
12 comments21 min readEA link