Versión en Español More than 300 million people in the world suffer from depression [1] and more than 800,000 commit suicide every year [2]. The …
Why trying to commit suicide is a bad idea
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The irrelevance of the objective world
Cover image source: Dogmo comics @dogmodog instagram Versión en español Atoms have no color All that we call Reality, it is actually interpretation. The visible …
Three solutions for the hard problems of sentience
Versión en español In meeting of the group of Altruismo Eficaz Madrid dedicated to the future of Artificial Sentience and its ethical considerations last 29/01/2019 we were …
The Rules of Creativity: Generic Techniques for Solving Problems and Producing Creative Works
Versión en español Are there rules for creativity? Isn’t this a paradox? No, it is not a paradox. There are rules, procedures, tricks and methods …
Reasons for and against cryonics and immortality
Versión en español. “It is an elementary consequence of probability theory that even very improbable outcomes are very likely to happen, if we wait long …
Sentience in machines flash talk (suffering focused ethics retreat)
Sentience in machines Why it is important? Do machines feel? Evidence Evidence of Sentience Evidence of Sentience in Machines How do we recognize sentience? Limitations …
Types of suffering based on their uncertainty
Versión en Español The following is a list of types of suffering organized according to their uncertainty. 1. Suffering well reported. In this case, the …
About violence and punishment
Versión en español Punishment has no intrinsic value It is a serious mistake to think that “punishing the guilty” is something valuable by itself. …
Why to focus on reducing intense suffering?
English | Español | Pусский Why to focus on reducing intense suffering? First of all, suffering is bad, so reducing suffering is good (or less …
Stuff that repels the attention
A SEP is something we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. …