EA reading list: suffering-focused ethics

[richard_ngo]

Start here:

• The case for suffering-focused ethics (Lukas Gloor, 2016)

• Risks of astronomical future suffering (Brian Tomasik)

• Are happiness and suffering symmetric? (Brian Tomasik, 2015)

• Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors (Althaus and Bauamann, 2020)

Further reading:

• The horror of suffering (Brian Tomasik)

• The world destruction argument (Simon Knutsson)

• How important is experiencing suffering for caring about suffering?

• Tranquilism (Lukas Gloor, 2017)

• Cause prioritization for downside-focused value systems (Lukas Gloor)

• Does Negative Utilitarianism Override Individual Preferences? (Brian Tomasik)

• Why I’m not a negative utilitarian (Toby Ord)

• Thoughts on Ord’s Why I’m not a negative utilitarian (Simon Knutsson)

• Are pleasure and pain equally energy-efficient? (Carl Shulman, 2012)

• Reply to Shulman’s Are pleasure and pain equally energy-efficient? (Simon Knutsson, 2017)

• Reducing risks of astronomical suffering: a neglected priority (David Althaus and Lukas Gloor, 2016)

• The importance of wild-animal suffering

• The importance of insect suffering

• The unproven and unprovable case for wild-animal suffering

• Is there more suffering than happiness in nature? A reply to Michael Plant

• Breeding happier animals (Carl Shulman)

• Academic bibliography on suffering-focused ethics

[RobertDaoust]

Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications, by Magnus Vinding.

[MichaelStJules]

Another reading list here by Center for Reducing Suffering.

[Jonas V]

Some academic references can be found here (in favor and against SFE)