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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
159
Reducing nightmares as a cause area
Drew Housman
5mo
45
125
Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering
algekalipso
3y
22
92
The Relative Importance of the Severity and Duration of Pain
William McAuliffe
2mo
4
91
Cluster Headache Frequency Follows a Long-Tail Distribution
algekalipso
3y
18
83
Get-Out-Of-Hell-Free Necklace
algekalipso
3y
15
78
Increasing Access to Pain Relief in Developing Countries - An EA Perspective
Lee_Sharkey
5y
19
70
Detecting Morally Significant Pain in Nonhumans: Some Philosophical Difficulties
Jason Schukraft
3y
8
66
Is pain just a signal to enlist altruists?
Ben_West
3y
10
64
Should Chronic Pain be a cause area?
mariushobbhahn
1y
13
54
Research Summary: The Intensity of Valenced Experience across Species
Jason Schukraft
2y
6
53
Kidney stone pain as a potential cause area
Dan Elton
7mo
6
43
OPIS policy paper: Legalising access to psilocybin for the treatment of cluster headaches
jonleighton
2y
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
271
Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
Adam Shriver
22d
45
156
An Introduction to the Moral Weight Project
Bob Fischer
1mo
6
98
The Subjective Experience of Time: Welfare Implications
Jason Schukraft
2y
21
96
Comparisons of Capacity for Welfare and Moral Status Across Species
Jason Schukraft
2y
62
90
Differences in the Intensity of Valenced Experience across Species
Jason Schukraft
2y
42
75
Research Summary: The Subjective Experience of Time
Jason Schukraft
2y
6
67
How to Measure Capacity for Welfare and Moral Status
Jason Schukraft
2y
19
61
Neuron Count-Based Measures May Currently Underweight Suffering in Farmed Fish
MHR
7d
5
59
Does Critical Flicker-Fusion Frequency Track the Subjective Experience of Time?
Jason Schukraft
2y
20
43
Radical Empathy
Holden Karnofsky
5y
5
42
New research on moral weights
GiveWell
3y
4
27
Why might one value animals far less than humans?
IsabelHasse
2y
14
21
Do sour grapes apply to morality?
Nikola
1y
3
20
Desire theories of welfare and nonhuman animals
MichaelStJules
5mo
5