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Pain and suffering
Cluster headache
Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering
22 posts
Moral weight
Moral patienthood
Equal consideration of interests
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Reducing nightmares as a cause area
Drew Housman
5mo
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Can you recommend associations that deal with reducing suffering?
Yanay
3mo
17
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The Relative Importance of the Severity and Duration of Pain
William McAuliffe
2mo
4
28
Relieving extreme physical pain in humans – an opportunity for effective funding
jonleighton
4y
15
35
Does the Trajectory of Pain Matter?
William McAuliffe
2mo
1
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Kidney stone pain as a potential cause area
Dan Elton
7mo
6
71
Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Necklace
algekalipso
3y
15
14
Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain (@Effective Altruism NYC)
algekalipso
3y
2
12
Quick general thoughts on suffering and consciousness
RobBensinger
1y
3
25
A review of what affective neuroscience knows about suffering & valence. (TLDR: Affective Neuroscience is very confused about what suffering is.)
MikeJohnson
5y
19
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Is pain just a signal to enlist altruists?
Ben_West
3y
10
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Detecting Morally Significant Pain in Nonhumans: Some Philosophical Difficulties
Jason Schukraft
3y
8
20
What are the Red Flags for Neural Network Suffering? - Seeds of Science call for reviewers
rogersbacon1
4mo
0
10
If Superpositions can Suffer
EricBlair
1y
9
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Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
Adam Shriver
22d
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Neuron Count-Based Measures May Currently Underweight Suffering in Farmed Fish
MHR
7d
5
164
An Introduction to the Moral Weight Project
Bob Fischer
1mo
6
14
Moral weights for various species and distributions
Vasco Grilo
5mo
10
38
Radical Empathy
Holden Karnofsky
5y
5
26
Desire theories of welfare and nonhuman animals
MichaelStJules
5mo
5
105
Comparisons of Capacity for Welfare and Moral Status Across Species
Jason Schukraft
2y
62
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Research Summary: The Subjective Experience of Time
Jason Schukraft
2y
6
24
Why might one value animals far less than humans?
IsabelHasse
2y
14
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Does Critical Flicker-Fusion Frequency Track the Subjective Experience of Time?
Jason Schukraft
2y
20
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Do sour grapes apply to morality?
Nikola
1y
3
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Differences in the Intensity of Valenced Experience across Species
Jason Schukraft
2y
42
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Upcoming AMA with Luke Muehlhauser on consciousness and moral patienthood (June 28, starting 9am Pacific)
Julia_Wise
5y
14
12
Is Suffering Convex?
Davidmanheim
4y
16