Versión en Español “I hope the Russians love their children too” –Sting Spoiler: Yes, Russians love their children too. NU (Negative Utilitarianism) has been …
Who wants to destroy the world?
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Experiments with human beings
Photo: Group of men who were test subjects in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments Versión en español. We live in times when painful and harmful experiments …
A vision of a world without money
Versión en español [This post is not about crypto money vs. government money. It’s suggesting another thing: a world without money at all.] If fiat-government …
On animal experimentation. In what cases is it ethical to experiment?
Versión en español Image: Young survivors [1] at the Auschwitz concentration camp [2], liberated by the Red Army in January 1945. This article is …
What the hell is “to emerge”?
Versión en español Emergentism is a very intuitive hypothesis, not devoid of logic. If with anesthesia or death or a good blow to the head …
Where are social organizations headed?
Versión en Español The survival capacity of so many organizations that have spent the last 50 years hardly altering their main lines of action despite …
Healing disease? Or alleviating suffering?
Versión en Español A beautiful story… In 1916, during the First World War, a military doctor was impressed by the high mortality of infected …
On theories of sentience: a talk with Magnus Vinding
Spanish version Manu Herrán: Let’s start with the very beginning. I’ll use the word “sentience” for experiences of suffering and enjoyment, and “consciousness” for subjective …
Project evaluation: simulate theories about sentience?
Versión en Español Activity of Effective Altruism Madrid. Tuesday, June 25, 2019 https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/Effective-Altruism-Madrid/events/262477495/ In general, we all have some intuition about the origin of the …
Why I think we should seriously consider the possibility that sentience and motivation play no role in evolution.
A defense of Epiphenomenalism Versión en Español Summary If we assume that sentience (and motivation) plays a role in evolution, we should look for it …