Beyond Action: Applying Consequentialism to Decision Making and Motivation (2009)
Doctoral advisors
John Broome
Derek Parfit
Main interests
Normative ethics
practical ethics
existential risk
moral uncertainty
Notable ideas
Effective altruism
Longtermism
Reversal test
Moral trade
Website
www.tobyord.com
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Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979)[3] is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as much as possible.[4]
He was a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, where his work focused on existential risk.[5] His book on the subject, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, was published in March 2020.[6]
^ abcOrd, Toby (3 March 2020). The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1526600219.
^MacAskill, Will (7 July 2016). Doing Good Better. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9781783350513.
^"Toby David Godfrey ORD personal appointments". Companies House. GOV.UK. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^"Hachette Book Group, Toby Ord". Hachette Book Group. 9 July 2019. Archived from the original on 7 February 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
^"Future of Humanity Institute, Team". Future of Humanity Institute. Archived from the original on 24 December 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
^The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. Hachette. 9 July 2019. ISBN 9780316484893. Archived from the original on 7 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge...
staff included futurist Anders Sandberg and Giving What We Can founder TobyOrd. Sharing an office and working closely with the Centre for Effective Altruism...
at Oxford University in 2009 by the philosopher TobyOrd, physician-in-training Bernadette Young (Ord's wife), and fellow philosopher William MacAskill...
in 2011. Philosophers influential to the movement include Peter Singer, TobyOrd, and William MacAskill. What began as a set of evaluation techniques advocated...
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, philosopher TobyOrd describes longtermism as follows: "longtermism ... is especially concerned...
from 26 academics on various global catastrophic and existential risks. TobyOrd's 2020 book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity argues...
understanding has been carried out by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and TobyOrd, and suggests "a substantial ex ante probability of there being no other...
effective altruism community. It was founded in 2012 by William MacAskill and TobyOrd, both philosophers at the University of Oxford. CEA is part of Effective...
characterized as eucatastrophes. Longtermists such as Owen Cotton-Barratt and TobyOrd have adopted the word to refer to any hypothetical future transition that...
context of the bioethics of human enhancement by Nick Bostrom and TobyOrd. Bostrom and Ord introduced the reversal test to provide an answer to the question...
Greaves Holden Karnofsky William MacAskill Dustin Moskovitz Yew-Kwang Ng TobyOrd Derek Parfit Peter Singer Cari Tuna Eliezer Yudkowsky Organizations 80...
a program on "existential hope", pushing forward the concept coined by TobyOrd and Owen Cotton-Barrett in their 2015 paper "Existential risk and Existential...
and digital minds. AI may also drastically improve humanity's future. TobyOrd considers the existential risk a reason for "proceeding with due caution"...
ISSN 0020-174X. Ord 2013. Pearce & A response to TobyOrd's essay. Contestabile & Why I'm (Not) a Negative Utilitarian – A Review of TobyOrd's Essay. Vinding...
could improve humanity's future and help reduce other existential risks, TobyOrd calls these existential risks "an argument for proceeding with due caution"...
had fallen to 8.2% by 2020. Two early proponents of effective altruism, TobyOrd and William MacAskill, met transhumanist philosopher Nick Bostrom at Oxford...
University Press. ISBN 978-0195306477. Introduction, "What is Catastrophe?" Ord, Toby (2020). The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. New...
Vincent C. Müller. With nanotechnologist Eric Drexler and philosopher TobyOrd in 2018 he published a paper entitled "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox". The...
YouTuber CGP Grey created an animated version of the story. With philosopher TobyOrd, he proposed the reversal test in 2006. Given humans' irrational status...
actors, directed at the making of profit and/or the regulation of action. TobyOrd believed that George Orwell's fears of totalitarianism constituted a notable...
importance than the same harm occurring to one identifiable person. Philosopher TobyOrd argues that scope neglect can explain why the moral importance of existential...
after one year. In 2009, MacAskill and fellow Oxford graduate student TobyOrd co-founded the organisation Giving What We Can to encourage people to pledge...
Dustin Moskovitz, Cari Tuna, Oxford-based researchers William MacAskill and TobyOrd, and professional poker player Liv Boeree. Pathological altruism is altruism...
effective altruism and existential risk, including the work of philosophers TobyOrd and William MacAskill who are trying to devise human and machine strategies...
Greaves Holden Karnofsky William MacAskill Dustin Moskovitz Yew-Kwang Ng TobyOrd Derek Parfit Peter Singer Cari Tuna Eliezer Yudkowsky Organizations 80...
government services. Many utilitarian philosophers, including Peter Singer and TobyOrd, argue that inhabitants of developed countries in particular have an obligation...
be relatively short. An analysis by Anders Sandberg, Eric Drexler and TobyOrd suggests "a substantial ex ante probability of there being no other intelligent...
they would reproduce and their kind would destroy humanity. According to TobyOrd, the idea that an AI takeover requires robots is a misconception driven...
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