[Versión en español] [Facebook] Underlying almost everything I write is the idea that pain is very bad. What if I was wrong? What if the …
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How to escape from reality?
Versión en Español “Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don’t believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.” …
A sentient world that works by gradients of bliss
With enough computational power, evolved species can master the fitness game just with pleasure. How? Pain and pleasure seem to be just tools to efficiently …
Metaphors of immersionism
Metaphors of immersionism Radio receiver Drops in the sky The veil of the ego (Sufi symbolism) Buckets with hot and cold water Object Oriented Programming …
Measurement of the effectiveness of initiatives aimed at alleviating and preventing intense suffering
Versión en español “The problem is that the story of life is always told by the living and the survivors… They are the ones who …
Different ways to prevent or reduce suffering
Versión en Español In this text I try to schematically conceptualize all possible possible ways to prevent or reduce suffering. In what follows, “suffering”, “pain” …
Dan Geinster’s texts
Negative Utilitarianism – A Manifesto by Dan Source: web.archive.org (Published here in order to preserve it, since the original website is not working) The doctrine …
How and why quantum computers
Thanks to IBM, I learned how to program a quantum computer. In classical computers we have a general purpose circuit that allows to execute all …
“Peter Pan” organizations and “Virus” organizations
Versión en Español What do NASA, the Third Reich, and a cloistered nunnery have in common? All of them are organizations far removed from the …
How to represent the intuition that there are different categories of suffering?
Versión en español Are the intuitions related to negative utilitarianism mathematically contradictory, absurd? No. What happens is that to represent these intuitions we need more …