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Some im­pli­ca­tions of rad­i­cal empathy

MichaelStJules7 Jan 2025 16:10 UTC
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Plea­sure and suffer­ing are not con­cep­tual opposites

MichaelStJules11 Aug 2024 18:32 UTC
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“Just Suffer Un­til It Passes”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)12 Feb 2018 4:01 UTC
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Wire­head your Chickens

Shmi20 Jun 2018 5:49 UTC
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Book Re­view: The Ethics of What We Eat

Jonah_O18 Oct 2021 8:16 UTC
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Tor­ture vs. Dust Specks

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2007 2:50 UTC
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Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC
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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Hell Must Be Destroyed

algekalipso6 Dec 2018 4:11 UTC
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Crav­ing, suffer­ing, and pre­dic­tive pro­cess­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2020 13:21 UTC
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Suffer­ing and In­tractable Pain

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 Apr 2018 1:05 UTC
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(mapandterritory.org)

Quan­tify­ing Hu­man Suffer­ing and “Every­day Suffer­ing”

willfranks3 Feb 2019 13:07 UTC
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[Question] ‘Max­i­mum’ level of suffer­ing?

Anirandis20 Jun 2020 14:05 UTC
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Emo­tional valence vs RL re­ward: a video game analogy

Steven Byrnes3 Sep 2020 15:28 UTC
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Over­com­ing Suffer­ing & Buddhism

Hul-Gil31 May 2011 4:35 UTC
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Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Ul­ti­mate Goal: Erad­i­cate Hu­man Suffer­ing.

willfranks25 Apr 2018 12:12 UTC
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Suffering

Tiiba3 Aug 2009 16:02 UTC
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Elec­trons don’t think (or suffer)

Shmi2 Jan 2019 16:27 UTC
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(backreaction.blogspot.com)

[Question] What does “tor­ture vs. dust specks” im­ply for in­sect suffer­ing?

Tejas Subramaniam8 Jun 2020 20:37 UTC
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Notes on Imag­i­na­tion and Suffering

SquirrelInHell5 Jul 2016 14:28 UTC
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Over­com­ing suffer­ing: Emo­tional acceptance

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2011 10:57 UTC
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Plea­sure and Pain are Long-Tailed

lsusr9 Sep 2021 5:10 UTC
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An ar­gu­ment that an­i­mals don’t re­ally suffer

Solvent7 Jan 2012 9:07 UTC
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Re­duc­ing Risks of Astro­nom­i­cal Suffer­ing (S-Risks): A Ne­glected Global Priority

ignoranceprior14 Oct 2016 19:58 UTC
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(foundational-research.org)

Quick gen­eral thoughts on suffer­ing and consciousness

Rob Bensinger30 Oct 2021 18:05 UTC
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Paper: Su­per­in­tel­li­gence as a Cause or Cure for Risks of Astro­nom­i­cal Suffering

Kaj_Sotala3 Jan 2018 14:39 UTC
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(www.informatica.si)

S-risks: Why they are the worst ex­is­ten­tial risks, and how to pre­vent them

Kaj_Sotala20 Jun 2017 12:34 UTC
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(foundational-research.org)

Notes on Endurance

David Gross26 Nov 2020 18:44 UTC
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Does equa­nim­ity pre­vent nega­tive util­ity?

Chris_Leong11 Jun 2020 7:00 UTC
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Notes on Compassion

David Gross1 Nov 2020 19:10 UTC
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Pre­face to CLR’s Re­search Agenda on Co­op­er­a­tion, Con­flict, and TAI

JesseClifton13 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
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Risk of Mass Hu­man Suffer­ing /​ Ex­tinc­tion due to Cli­mate Emer­gency

willfranks14 Mar 2019 18:32 UTC
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A Thought Ex­per­i­ment on Pain as a Mo­ral Disvalue

Wei Dai11 Mar 2011 7:56 UTC
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Prevent­ing s-risks via in­dex­i­cal un­cer­tainty, acausal trade and dom­i­na­tion in the multiverse

avturchin27 Sep 2018 10:09 UTC
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You Too Can See Suffering

SquirrelInHell3 Oct 2017 19:46 UTC
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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com.es)

Richard Dawk­ins on vivi­sec­tion: “But can they suffer?”

XiXiDu4 Jul 2011 16:56 UTC
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Valu­ing Sen­tience: Can They Suffer?

jefftk29 Jul 2013 12:39 UTC
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Mini map of s-risks

turchin8 Jul 2017 12:33 UTC
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From self to crav­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala22 May 2020 12:16 UTC
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A Sim­ple Two-Axis Model of Sub­jec­tive States, with Pos­si­ble Ap­pli­ca­tions to Utili­tar­ian Problems

moridinamael2 Jan 2018 18:07 UTC
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The mys­tery of pain and pleasure

johnsonmx1 Mar 2015 19:47 UTC
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The Dilemma of Worse Than Death Scenarios

arkaeik10 Jul 2018 9:18 UTC
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Is skil­led hunt­ing un­eth­i­cal?

JamesFaville17 Feb 2018 18:48 UTC
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Why would evolu­tion fa­vor more bad?

KatjaGrace6 Oct 2013 18:26 UTC
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Antiantinatalism

Jacob Falkovich9 Feb 2018 16:49 UTC
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‘The Bat­tle for Com­pas­sion’: ethics in a world of ac­cel­er­at­ing change

lukeprog11 Sep 2011 12:54 UTC
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28 so­cial psy­chol­ogy stud­ies from *Ex­per­i­ments With Peo­ple* (Frey & Gregg, 2017)

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 2:23 UTC
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[Question] If some­one you loved was ex­pe­rienc­ing un­remit­ting suffer­ing (re­lated to a con­stel­la­tion of multi-di­men­sional fac­tors and pro­cesses, those of which in­clude anoma­lous states of con­scious­ness and an ia­tro­genic men­tal health sys­tem), what would you think and what would you do?

Sara C3 Jul 2020 21:02 UTC
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Suffer­ing as at­ten­tion-al­lo­ca­tional conflict

Kaj_Sotala18 May 2011 15:12 UTC
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Why I stopped work­ing on AI safety

jbkjr2 May 2024 5:08 UTC
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(jbkjr.me)

Suffer­ing Is Not Pain

jbkjr18 Jun 2024 18:04 UTC
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(jbkjr.me)

Mo­ti­va­tion Theory

Zero Contradictions8 Aug 2024 5:05 UTC
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(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Se­quence overview: Welfare and moral weights

MichaelStJules15 Aug 2024 4:22 UTC
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Open-ended ethics of phe­nom­ena (a desider­ata with uni­ver­sal moral­ity)

Ryo 8 Nov 2023 20:10 UTC
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Re­duc­ing x-risk might be ac­tively harmful

MountainPath18 Nov 2024 14:25 UTC
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Ac­tu­al­ism, asym­me­try and extinction

MichaelStJules7 Jan 2025 16:02 UTC
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Myths about Non­d­u­al­ity and Science by Gary Weber

Vadim Golub15 Jan 2025 18:33 UTC
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AI Align­ment, Philo­soph­i­cal Plu­ral­ism, and the Rele­vance of Non-Western Philosophy

xuan1 Jan 2021 0:08 UTC
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[Question] How is re­in­force­ment learn­ing pos­si­ble in non-sen­tient agents?

SomeoneKind5 Jan 2021 20:57 UTC
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​​ Open-ended/​Phenom­e­nal ​Ethics ​(TLDR)

Ryo 9 Nov 2023 16:58 UTC
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Many of us *are* hit with a base­ball once a month.

Alexandros22 Dec 2010 17:56 UTC
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Pain

Alicorn2 Aug 2009 19:12 UTC
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The­o­ries of Pain

mingyuan26 Aug 2018 22:05 UTC
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How to Deal with De­pres­sion—The Meta Layers

ShannonFriedman26 Oct 2012 18:44 UTC
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A cog­ni­tive in­ter­ven­tion for wrist pain

rmoehn17 Mar 2019 5:26 UTC
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Peanut Butter

Jacob Falkovich3 Dec 2018 19:30 UTC
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Aella on Ra­tion­al­ity and the Void

Jacob Falkovich31 Oct 2019 21:40 UTC
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Con­trived in­finite-tor­ture sce­nar­ios: July 2010

PlaidX23 Jul 2010 23:54 UTC
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On dol­lars, util­ity, and crack cocaine

PhilGoetz4 Apr 2009 0:00 UTC
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Is masochism nec­es­sary?

PhilGoetz10 Apr 2009 23:48 UTC
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TED Talks for Less Wrong

Cyan2 May 2009 3:32 UTC
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Short, Ex­treme, For­got­ten Tor­ture vs Death

burrito7 Feb 2021 9:31 UTC
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Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics in the In­finite Uni­verse. How can we re­deem our­selves if Mul­ti­verse Im­mor­tal­ity is real and sub­jec­tive death is im­pos­si­ble.

Szymon Kucharski24 Feb 2021 21:02 UTC
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Which an­i­mals can suffer?

Valentin20261 Jun 2021 3:42 UTC
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Vi­pas­sana Med­i­ta­tion and Ac­tive In­fer­ence: A Frame­work for Un­der­stand­ing Suffer­ing and its Cessation

Benjamin Sturgeon21 Mar 2024 12:32 UTC
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[Book Re­view] “Suffer­ing-fo­cused Ethics” by Mag­nus Vinding

KStub28 Dec 2021 5:58 UTC
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What are red flags for Neu­ral Net­work suffer­ing?

Marius Hobbhahn8 Nov 2021 12:51 UTC
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Any per­son/​mind should have the right to suicide

askofa12 Jan 2023 0:32 UTC
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