{"id":1080,"date":"2010-06-26T14:42:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T21:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2017-04-16T22:27:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T05:27:44","slug":"existential-risk-reduction-career-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/existential-risk-reduction-career-network","title":{"rendered":"Existential Risk Reduction Career Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xrisknetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The existential risk reduction career network<\/a> is a career network for those interested in getting a relatively well-paid job and donating substantial amounts (relative to income) to non-profit organizations focused on the reduction of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Existential_risk\" target=\"_blank\">existential risks<\/a>, in the vein of <a href=\"http:\/\/singinst.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SIAI<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhi.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">FHI<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/ex\/main\" target=\"_blank\">Lifeboat Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to foster a community of donors, and to allow donors and potential donors to give each other advice, particularly regarding the pros and cons of various careers, and for networking with like-minded others within industries. For example, someone already working in a large corporation could give a prospective donor advice about how to apply for a job.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, it is hoped that the network will grow to a relatively large size, and that donations to existential risk-reduction from the network will make up a substantial fraction of funding for the beneficiary organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In isolation, individuals may feel like existential risk is too large a problem to make a dent in, but collectively, we can make a huge difference. If you are interested in helping us make a difference, then please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xrisknetwork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out the network<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xrisknetwork.com\/requesting-invitations\">request an invitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to contact the organizers at <a href=\"mailto:contact@xrisknetwork.com\">contact@xrisknetwork.com<\/a> with any comments or questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The existential risk reduction career network is a career network for those interested in getting a relatively well-paid job and donating substantial amounts (relative to income) to non-profit organizations focused on the reduction of existential risks, in the vein of SIAI, FHI, and the Lifeboat Foundation. The aim is to foster a community of donors, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,45,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-finance","category-lifeboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51981,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/51981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}