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 …
A sentient world that works by gradients of bliss
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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 …
“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 …
Chicken and pigs burned and boiled alive in Europe and USA
2013 – Nearly one million chickens and turkeys are boiled alive as well each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill …
What can I do to prevent my own intense suffering?
Versión en español Related: What can I do to prevent intense suffering? Take action if you suffer from depression, anxiety or chronic pain. Go to …
Mortem Tirana – Hypothesis Mass
Versión en Español “Hypothesis Mass” is the name of a song which lyrics I wrote in 2011 for the Death Metal band called Mortem Tirana. …