I think this is a great initiative! I’ve signed both, the global and national letters (I am from the United States). As someone who is interested in preventing extreme suffering and wants to take further action, I’m curious if anyone thinks it would be worthwhile to also write a letter to my local representative about taking action? I’m currently very ignorant on how the levers and wheels of politics actually move, but I would like to learn more. I wonder if a local representative has any power to do something, and if so, which specific actions could they take? Do they have any levers to influence the government on a federal level? Could some funding be allocated to research cluster headache treatments at state universities? I’m not sure if this extra step of writing to a local representative can do anything, but I figure it’s worth asking!
Thanks. :)
Excellent, thank you so much! This gave me the extra push to write to my local representative about this issue. I will also speak to others and encourage more people to sign the global and national letters. As a suggestion, maybe it would be good to have a form letter option on the ClusterFree website that could be sent to one’s local representative (like the one that ControlAI has regarding human extinction risk from AI).
I appreciate what you’re doing, and I think this project is especially important as someone who is also very sympathetic to suffering-focused ethics (though of course, preventing extreme suffering should be common to all ethical frameworks!).
Best of luck in your endeavors! :)