Biosecurity and pandemics
It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history
What is Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague?
202 million of this animal is slaughtered for meat every day
Who is a chicken?
More that half of the world's net wealth belongs to the top 1%, while the bottom 90% hold this amount (in %)
What is 15%?
It took this long to reach 1M users for ChatGPT
What is 5 days? (Fastest in history)
This is the amount of hours an average person works in their lifetime
What is 80000 hours?
This disease had a 30% death rate, but was eradicated in 1979
What is Smallpox?
This % of agricultural land is used for farmed animals
What is 75%?
This is the amount that saves a life according to GiveWell and Against Malaria Foundation
What is $5500?
This supercomputer defeated the chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997
What is IBM's Deep Blue?
This philosopher is known as the author of the "shallow pond and drowning child" idea
Who is Peter Singer?
Estimated death toll in the world due to COVID-19 (JAN2020-FEB2023)
What is 6.9 million (0.087%)?
X times more animals pass through industrial farms compared to animal shelters every year in Estonia.
What is 3700 times?
These three qualities/factors are what GWWC (and EA community in general) use to identify the most pressing problems.
What are scale, neglectedness and tractability (solvability)?
Metaculus forecasters believe that there is a 50/50-chance for an ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ to be ‘devised, tested, and publicly announced’ by this year
What is 2031 (2040)?
There are 9 countries in the world that have nuclear weapons (10000). Roughly 90% of these are owned by these two countries
What are USA and Russia?
This method has emerged as a highly promising approach to indoor air disinfection, offering enhanced effectiveness and safety compared to conventional systems
What is far-UVC?
In the past 50 years the world population has increased from 3bn to 8bn (ca 2.5x), this is how many times the meat production has gone up.
What is 5x?
In 2019, a total of 643,381 malaria deaths were reported, of which X% was children under 5 years
What is 55%? (356,363)
In 2020 companies invested over $100B in developing AI, this is how much was spend on reducing catastrophic risks from AI
What is $50 million?
This is how many humans have ever lived since the start of humanity
What is 110 billion?
This virus became contagious between mammals in a 2011 lab experiment. It has a 60% mortality rate for humans.
What is the H5N1 strain of avian influenza?
This is how many shrimp are farmed every year according to Shrimp Welfare Project, it is also more than 5x the total number of all farmed land animals put together
What is ca 440 billion shrimps?
It’s an insidious toxin, an estimated one in three children has dangerous levels of it in their bloodstream. Exposure to it irreversibly affects a child’s cognitive development, undermining their potential, and causes cardiovascular disease, anemia and kidney damage.
What is lead?
This British computer scientist is known for the uncertainty principles (The machine's only objective is to maximize the realization of human preferences, the machine is initially uncertain about what those preferences are, the ultimate source of information about human preferences is human behavior)
Who is Stuart Russell?
This is the difference between utilitarianism and effective altruism
What is the obligation to sacrifice one's own interests to help others?