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Cen­ter for Re­duc­ing Suffering

TagLast edit: 28 Sep 2022 19:43 UTC by Pablo

The Center for Reducing Suffering (CRS) is a research center focusing on s-risks. It was founded in 2020 by Tobias Baumann and Magnus Vinding.

Further reading

Center for Reducing Suffering (2021) About us, Center for Reducing Suffering.

External links

Center for Reducing Suffering. Official website.

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Pos­i­tive roles of life and ex­pe­rience in suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

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[Linkpost] My moral view: Re­duc­ing suffer­ing, ‘how to be’ as fun­da­men­tal to moral­ity, no pos­i­tive value, cons of grand the­ory, and more—By Si­mon Knutsson

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Risk fac­tors for s-risks

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Min­i­mal­ist ex­tended very re­pug­nant con­clu­sions are the least repugnant

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89 points
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Magnus Vinding20 May 2022 16:25 UTC
31 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
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Rep­re­sent­ing fu­ture gen­er­a­tions in the poli­ti­cal process

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35 points
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Why Donate to the Cen­ter for Re­duc­ing Suffer­ing?

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27 points
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