Suffering

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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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Book Review: The Ethics of What We Eat

Jonah_O18 Oct 2021 8:16 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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Wirehead your Chickens

Shmi20 Jun 2018 5:49 UTC

86 points

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Torture vs. Dust Specks

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2007 2:50 UTC

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The mystery of pain and pleasure

johnsonmx1 Mar 2015 19:47 UTC

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[Question] ‘Maximum’ level of suffering?

Anirandis20 Jun 2020 14:05 UTC

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Why would evolution favor more bad?

KatjaGrace6 Oct 2013 18:26 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)

You Too Can See Suffering

SquirrelInHell3 Oct 2017 19:46 UTC

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(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com.es)

A Thought Experiment on Pain as a Moral Disvalue

Wei Dai11 Mar 2011 7:56 UTC

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

Tejas Subramaniam8 Jun 2020 20:37 UTC

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Notes on Compassion

David Gross1 Nov 2020 19:10 UTC

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Does equanimity prevent negative utility?

Chris_Leong11 Jun 2020 7:00 UTC

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Quantifying Human Suffering and “Everyday Suffering”

willfranks3 Feb 2019 13:07 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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An argument that animals don’t really suffer

Solvent7 Jan 2012 9:07 UTC

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The Dilemma of Worse Than Death Scenarios

arkaeik10 Jul 2018 9:18 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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Suffering and Intractable Pain

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 Apr 2018 1:05 UTC

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(mapandterritory.org)

Suffering as attention-allocational conflict

Kaj_Sotala18 May 2011 15:12 UTC

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Overcoming Suffering & Buddhism

Hul-Gil31 May 2011 4:35 UTC

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Is skilled hunting unethical?

JamesFaville17 Feb 2018 18:48 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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Preventing s-risks via indexical uncertainty, acausal trade and domination in the multiverse

avturchin27 Sep 2018 10:09 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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Mini map of s-risks

turchin8 Jul 2017 12:33 UTC

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Suffering

Tiiba3 Aug 2009 16:02 UTC

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Notes on Endurance

David Gross26 Nov 2020 18:44 UTC

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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)

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)

From self to craving (three characteristics series)

Kaj_Sotala22 May 2020 12:16 UTC

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Antiantinatalism

Jacob Falkovich9 Feb 2018 16:49 UTC

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Overcoming suffering: Emotional acceptance

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2011 10:57 UTC

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Electrons don’t think (or suffer)

Shmi2 Jan 2019 16:27 UTC

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(backreaction.blogspot.com)

Valuing Sentience: Can They Suffer?

jefftk29 Jul 2013 12:39 UTC

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Learned pain as a leading cause of chronic pain

SoerenMind9 Apr 2025 11:57 UTC

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Quick general thoughts on suffering and consciousness

Rob Bensinger30 Oct 2021 18:05 UTC

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Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2020 13:21 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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Effective Altruism’s Ultimate Goal: Eradicate Human Suffering.

willfranks25 Apr 2018 12:12 UTC

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Pleasure and Pain are Long-Tailed

lsusr9 Sep 2021 5:10 UTC

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Do Not Tile the Lightcone with Your Confused Ontology

Jan_Kulveit13 Jun 2025 12:45 UTC

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(boundedlyrational.substack.com)

Notes on Imagination and Suffering

SquirrelInHell5 Jul 2016 14:28 UTC

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

XiXiDu4 Jul 2011 16:56 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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Suffering Is Not Pain

jbkjr18 Jun 2024 18:04 UTC

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(jbkjr.me)

AI Alignment, Philosophical Pluralism, and the Relevance of Non-Western Philosophy

xuan1 Jan 2021 0:08 UTC

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Aella on Rationality and the Void

Jacob Falkovich31 Oct 2019 21:40 UTC

27 points

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Peanut Butter

Jacob Falkovich3 Dec 2018 19:30 UTC

28 points

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How to Deal with Depression—The Meta Layers

ShannonFriedman26 Oct 2012 18:44 UTC

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[Book Review] “Suffering-focused Ethics” by Magnus Vinding

KStub28 Dec 2021 5:58 UTC

15 points

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What are red flags for Neural Network suffering?

Marius Hobbhahn8 Nov 2021 12:51 UTC

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A cognitive intervention for wrist pain

rmoehn17 Mar 2019 5:26 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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Theories of Pain

mingyuan26 Aug 2018 22:05 UTC

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Reducing x-risk might be actively harmful

MountainPath18 Nov 2024 14:25 UTC

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Motivation Theory

Zero Contradictions8 Aug 2024 5:05 UTC

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(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

On dollars, utility, and crack cocaine

PhilGoetz4 Apr 2009 0:00 UTC

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Pain

Alicorn2 Aug 2009 19:12 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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Any person/mind should have the right to suicide

askofa12 Jan 2023 0:32 UTC

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Open-ended/Phenomenal Ethics (TLDR)

Ryo 9 Nov 2023 16:58 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-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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[Question] How is reinforcement learning possible in non-sentient agents?

SomeoneKind5 Jan 2021 20:57 UTC

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Myths about Nonduality and Science by Gary Weber

Vadim Golub15 Jan 2025 18:33 UTC

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Contrived infinite-torture scenarios: July 2010

PlaidX23 Jul 2010 23:54 UTC

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Actualism, asymmetry and extinction

MichaelStJules7 Jan 2025 16:02 UTC

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Vipassana Meditation and Active Inference: A Framework for Understanding Suffering and its Cessation

sturb21 Mar 2024 12:32 UTC

50 points

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TED Talks for Less Wrong

Cyan2 May 2009 3:32 UTC

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Which animals can suffer?

Valentin20261 Jun 2021 3:42 UTC

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Short, Extreme, Forgotten Torture vs Death

burrito7 Feb 2021 9:31 UTC

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Is masochism necessary?

PhilGoetz10 Apr 2009 23:48 UTC

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Sequence overview: Welfare and moral weights

MichaelStJules15 Aug 2024 4:22 UTC

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