Existential Risks
Week 5 Concepts
UP Things
100

An example is COVID-19

What is a Pandemic? 

100

The author of the Precipice

Who is Toby Ord? 

100

Arms open wide, this is a creation of national artist Guillermo Tolentino

What is the Oblation? 

200

DALL-e is a learning model that can create digital images from natural language word prompts. It is an example of - 

What is artificial intelligence? 

200

It holds that positively influencing the long-term future is the key moral priority of our time. This form of longtermism was introduced by Hilary Greaves and Will MacAskill, and has precedents in the work of Nick Bostrom, Nick Beckstead, and others.

What is strong longtermism? 

200

The largest college in UP Diliman 

What is the College of Engineering?

300

On September 26, 1983, a Soviet lieutenant colonel was credited with averting nuclear war with the US after he delayed following orders to retaliate with nuclear missiles with what was then perceived as a legitimate attack but turned out to be a false alarm. 

Who is Stanislav Petrov? 

300

This type of longtermism tries to have a long-term influence by pursuing general approaches with the potential to be useful in a broader range of contexts, such as building effective altruism or promoting global cooperation. 

What is broad longtermism? 
300

Formerly known as the College of Business Administration in Diliman, now named for a former Prime Minister of the Philippines

What is the Cesar Virata School of Business?