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Case for emergency response teams - EA Forum

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This project is seeking a paid coordinator. Please apply here. • MOTIVATION See Hinges and crises for expanded explanation. …

[October 2022 edit: See here for our current progress.] Motivation See Hinges and crises for expanded explanation. The hinge of history So far, long-termist efforts to change the trajectory of the world focus on far-off events. This is on the assumption that we foresee some important problem and influence its outcome by working on the problem for longer. We thus start working on it sooner than others, we lay the groundwork for future research, we raise awareness, and so on. Many longtermists propose that we now live at the “hinge of history”, usually understood on the timescale of…

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