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Cost-Effective Causes
What issues have biggest expected reduction in suffering? Where should donors their resources? Where should activists? Long-term vs. short-term impacts.
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Practical Aspects of Reducing Suffering
Concrete strategies, lifestyle tips, making money, time value of action and internal rates of return, ways to enhance productivity, focusing on biggest-picture issues, encouraging others to become involved.
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Wild-Animal Suffering
What's the balance of wild-animal suffering and happiness? What are the best ways to encourage people to care more about suffering in nature?
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Theory of Reducing Suffering
Utilitarianism vs. prioritarianism vs. other philosophies. How to weight happiness against suffering? Consequentialism, mathematical difficulties, decision theories, general philosophy.
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Rationality and Epistemology
Bayesian probability, statistics, computer science, AI, decision theories.
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Scientific Background
Implications of physics, cosmology, biology, economics, sociology, and other academic subjects on our beliefs about the way the multiverse works.
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Psychology and Suffering
Cognitive science as it relates to pain and suffering. Implications of neuroscience and neuroengineering.
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About the Forum / Wiki
Discussion about the forum or wiki pages themselves.
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