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Pain and suffering
Moral weight
Moral patienthood
Cluster headache
Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering
Equal consideration of interests
56 posts
Invertebrate welfare
Animal sentience
Fish welfare
Fish Welfare Initiative
Animal cognition
Aquatic Life Institute
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Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
Adam Shriver
22d
45
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Neuron Count-Based Measures May Currently Underweight Suffering in Farmed Fish
MHR
7d
5
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Reducing nightmares as a cause area
Drew Housman
5mo
45
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Can you recommend associations that deal with reducing suffering?
Yanay
3mo
17
156
An Introduction to the Moral Weight Project
Bob Fischer
1mo
6
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The Relative Importance of the Severity and Duration of Pain
William McAuliffe
2mo
4
15
Moral weights for various species and distributions
Vasco Grilo
5mo
10
43
Radical Empathy
Holden Karnofsky
5y
5
20
Desire theories of welfare and nonhuman animals
MichaelStJules
5mo
5
38
Relieving extreme physical pain in humans – an opportunity for effective funding
jonleighton
4y
15
31
Does the Trajectory of Pain Matter?
William McAuliffe
2mo
1
53
Kidney stone pain as a potential cause area
Dan Elton
7mo
6
83
Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Necklace
algekalipso
3y
15
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Comparisons of Capacity for Welfare and Moral Status Across Species
Jason Schukraft
2y
62
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Octopuses (Probably) Don't Have Nine Minds
Bob Fischer
8d
19
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Banding Together to Ban Octopus Farming
Tessa @ ALI
20d
10
191
Short Research Summary: Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence by Gibbons et al. 2022
Meghan Barrett
28d
21
35
EA needs more humor
SWK
19d
14
35
Is improving the welfare of arthropods and nematodes underrated?
Vasco Grilo
1mo
10
14
Evolution, Pain, Suffering, and Ed Yong
MattBall
26d
4
31
What might decorticate rats tell us about the distribution of consciousness?
Derek Shiller
5mo
12
105
Announcing the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program
Sofia_Fogel
3mo
4
130
World's First Octopus Farm - Linkpost
CatGoddess
12mo
27
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Research summary: brain cell counts in Black Soldier Flies (Hermetia illucens; Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
Rethink Priorities
4mo
2
13
The Subjective Experience of Time: Welfare Implications (Schukraft, 2020)
Will Aldred
5mo
2
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Why should I care about insects?
JamieGittins
7mo
18
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Features Relevant to Invertebrate Sentience, Part 3
Jason Schukraft
3y
7
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Next Steps in Invertebrate Welfare, Part 3: Understanding Attitudes and Possibilities
Daniela R. Waldhorn
3y
2