Versión en español Summary of asymmetries between good and bad (relative to sentient beings as we know them) There are more laws that punish than …
Asymmetries and compensations between pleasure and pain, good and bad
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Opportunities for an astronomical reduction of suffering
Versión en español This is a list of situations, projects or initiatives in which there could be an “astronomical” (huge) reduction in the amount of …
NU / SFE vs CU debates in EA
Negative Utilitarianism / Suffering Focused Ethics vs Classic utilitarianism (or simply “Utilitarianism”) debates in Effective Altruism I used to consider myself NU, by Kaj Sotala. …
Jiwoon Hwang Resources
Jiwoon Hwang (1995-2018) resources: Personal website jiwoonhwang.org (the original source is not available, but I host a copy here: ) A copy of all posts …
Sensations (or Senses), Emotions and Feelings
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About evidence
Versión en Español “How do you know that science is a better belief system than others? Because it works. Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers …
About Sentience Platonism and removing past suffering
Versión en Español Sentience Platonism (short version here) is the idea that experiences exist by themselves, regardless of the sentient beings who experience them, and …
The principle of stability, inertia and recurrence
“We only know in its full light one single law: that of constancy and uniformity. We try to reduce all the others to this simple …
A quick summary on Paneudaimonia
Versión en español What is “Paneudaimonia”[1]? Paneudaimonia is the idea that the whole universe is absolute pleasure, except in the domain of what we know …
A quick summary on Sentient Platonism
Versión en Español “… a crazy-sounding belief of mine that our physical world not only is described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics, making …