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| Before 2005 || Pre-FHI days || This is the period leading up to FHI's existence. {{W|Nick Bostrom}}, who would become FHI's first (and so far only) director, is born and completes his education. Also happening in this period are the development of transhumanism, the creation of various transhumanism-related mailing lists, and Bostrom's development of his early ideas.
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| 2005–2011 || Early days of FHI || FHI is established and begins its research. Compared to later periods, this period seems to have a greater focus on the ethics of human enhancement. FHI publishes three Annual/Achievement Reports during this period.
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| 2011–2015 || More development and publication of ''Superintelligence'' || More focus on existential risks, in particular risks from advanced artificial intelligence. FHI did not seem to publish any Annual/Achievement Reports during this period, so it is somewhat difficult to tell what FHI considers its greatest accomplishments during this period (other than the publication of ''Superintelligence'').
* For "Financial", the intention is to include all substantial (say, over $10,000) donations, including aggregated donations and donations of unknown amounts.
* For "Nick Bostrom", the intention is to include events sufficient to give a rough overview of Bostrom's development prior to the founding of FHI.
* For "Social media", the intention is to include all Reddit AMAs and social media account creations (where the date is known)and Reddit AMAs.
* Events about FHI staff giving policy advice (to e.g. government bodies) are not included, as there are many such events and it is difficult to tell which ones are more important.
| 1998 || {{dts|December 14}} || Website || The domain name for Nick Bostrom's analytic philosophy website, <code>analytic.org</code>, is registered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=analytic.org |title=Showing results for: ANALYTIC.ORG |publisher=ICANN WHOIS |accessdate=March 15, 2018 |quote=Creation Date: 1998-12-14T05:00:00Z}}</ref> The first Internet Archive snapshot of the website is from November 28, 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://analytic.org:80/ |title=Nick Bostrom's thinking in analytic philosophy |accessdate=March 15, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19991128131608/http://analytic.org:80/ |archivedate=November 28, 1999 |dead-url=yes}}</ref> As of March 2018, the website is not maintained and points to Bostrom's main website, <code>nickbostrom.com</code>.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://analytic.org/ |title=Nick Bostrom's thinking in analytic philosophy |accessdate=March 15, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2000–2002 || || Nick Bostrom || {{W|Nick Bostrom}} is a lecturer at {{W|Yale University}}during this period.<ref name="bostrom-cv" />
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| 2001 || {{dts|October 31}} || Website || The Simulation Argument website's domain name, <code>simulation-argument.com</code>, is registered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=simulation-argument.com |title=Showing results for: simulation-argument.com |publisher=ICANN WHOIS |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |quote=Creation Date: 2001-10-31T08:55:28Z}}</ref> The first Internet Archive snapshot of the website would be on December 5, 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010801000000*/simulation-argument.com |title=simulation-argument.com |publisher=Internet Archive |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref> The website hosts information about the [[wikipedia:Simulation hypothesis|simulation hypothesis]], especially as articulated by Bostrom. In the FHI Achievements Report for 2008–2010, the Simulation Argument website is listed under websites maintained by FHI members.<ref name="achievements-report-2008-to-2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/19900/Achievements_Report_2008-2010.pdf |title=Wayback Machine |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516013458/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/19900/Achievements_Report_2008-2010.pdf |archivedate=May 16, 2011 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
| 2007 || {{dts|August 24}} || Publication || ''Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker'' is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wittgenstein-His-Interpreters-Essays-Memory/dp/1405129220/ |title=Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker: Amazon.co.uk: Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, Oskari Kuusela: 9781405129220: Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018}}</ref><ref name="2010-11-03-books">{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/selected_outputs/recent_books |title=Future of Humanity Institute - Books |accessdate=February 8, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101103223749/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/selected_outputs/recent_books |archivedate=November 3, 2010 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>
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| 2007 || Autumn || Workshop || Nick Bostrom and Rafaela Hillerbrand of FHI organize an Existential Risk Workshop that would be planned for takes place around this time. (This source only says the workshop is planned, so it is unclear if it took place.)<ref name="fhi-report" />{{rp|74}}<ref name="bostrom-cv" />{{rp|17}}
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| 2007 || {{dts|November}} || Website || The ''Practical Ethics'' blog, a blog about ethics by FHI's Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, launches. This blog takes many names throughout its life, including ''practicalethics: Ethical analysis of science in the news'', ''Practical Ethics'', ''Practical Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on the News'', and ''Practical Ethics: Ethics in the News'', and has also been called ''Practical Ethics in the News'' (. Its URL also begins at <code>ethicsinthenews.typepad.com/practicalethics</code>, was also available at <code>www.practicalethicsnews.com</code>) launches, and is now at <code>blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk</code>.<ref name="annual-report-oct-2008-to-sep-2009">{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/19901/FHI_Annual_Report.pdf |title=Wayback Machine |accessdate=March 11, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413031223/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/19901/FHI_Annual_Report.pdf |archivedate=April 13, 2012 |dead-url=yes}}</ref> (I think this is the same as ''Practical Ethics'' mentioned below.) At some point the site begins redirecting to http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/ but as of March 2018 the site is "temporarily offline for maintenance" (for several years now).|-| 2008 || || Website || ''Practical Ethics'', a blog about ethics by FHI's Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, launches.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/updates.html |title=Future of Humanity Institute Updates |accessdate=February 7, 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915151519/http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk:80/updates.html |archivedate=September 15, 2008 |dead-url=yes}}</ref>Interestingly, as of March 2018, although the blog continues at the new Oxford URL, the page at <code>www.practicalethicsnews.com</code> only says "This page is temporarily offline for maintenance", and has said so for several years.
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| 2008 || || Publication || "Whole Brain Emulation: A Technical Roadmap" by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom is published.<ref name="annual-report-oct-2008-to-sep-2009" /> This is a featured FHI publication.<ref name="selected-publications-archive" />
