22 Organisations working on multiple Global Catastrophic risks

by Stuart_Armstrong

22nd May 2014

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[-]lukeprog12y130

I don't suppose your report will include an estimate of the funding amount going toward studying/mitigating each risk (from these organizations alone)?

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[-]Stuart_Armstrong12y30

Nope! That would be a good subject for another report.

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[-]Lumifer12y70

What exactly is a Global Catastrophic Risk?

Seeing how "chemical weapons" or "poverty" made the list, I am quite confused about the scope of this concept.

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[-]Stuart_Armstrong12y10

Poverty is on the list for complicated reasons that aren't all that interesting. Some people do define chemical weapons as having catastrophic potentials; I don't agree with that, but I can't reject it out of hand.

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[-]Username12y50

I'd love a general introduction to what you're targeting and general methodology, because this post leaves me with a lot of questions.

What is "Phase Transition" and "Reject Procreation"? How is climate change different from biogeochem and ocean acidification? Is poverty really a catastrophic risk? How were the zero-organization GCR's chosen?

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[-]Stuart_Armstrong12y10

There will be a write up of the methodology in respectable terms in the final report, but it's essentially knowledge+google search+checking links on various sites (such as those found by the above processes, and some of the effective altruism sites that have looked into this).

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[-]turchin12y-20

This collective blog is about runaway global warming and possible human extinction - a lot of good info graphic http://arctic-news.blogspot.ru/

About different seismic catastrophes - while not so scientifically based, it sometimes has some interesting news http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/author/theextinctionprotocol/

All doom oriented conspiracy theorists are here. Fast news discussion and all possible gossips. Useless but addictive. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/

Now semiclosed blog about Peak oil and Peak everything - a lot of good analisys http://www.theoildrum.com/

This blog is orientated on economic collapse and war http://www.zerohedge.com/

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Brookings	http://www.brookings.edu/research#topics/
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists	http://thebulletin.org/
CSER	http://cser.org/emerging-risks-from-technology/
Center for International Security and Cooperation	http://cisac.stanford.edu/
Club of Rome	http://www.clubofrome.org/
Council on Foreign Relations	http://www.cfr.org/issue/
Federation of American Scientists	http://www.fas.org/programs
Future of Humanity Institute	http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/research/research-areas/
Global Catastrophic Risk Institute	http://gcrinstitute.org/research/
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses	http://www.idsa.in/topics
International Risk Governance Council	http://www.irgc.org/issues/
Lifeboat Foundation	http://lifeboat.com/ex/programs
Nuclear Threat Initiative	http://www.nti.org/
Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens	http://shfhs.org/whatarexrisks.html
Skoll Global Threats Fund	http://www.skollglobalthreats.org/
Stimson Center	http://www.stimson.org/programs/
Risk Response Network	http://forumblog.org/communities/risk-response-network/
World Economic Forum	http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-2014-report
Tower Watson	http://www.towerswatson.com/en/Insights/IC-Types/Survey-Research-Results/2013/10/Extreme-risks-2013

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