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Alfredo Parra 🔸

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I’m the Director and Co-Founder of ClusterFree, an advocacy and research initiative focused on cluster headaches. ClusterFree is a project of the Qualia Research Institute.

I previously worked as Chief of Staff at the Institute for Law & AI (formerly “Legal Priorities Project”) and as COO at the Center on Long-Term Risk (formerly “Effective Altruism Foundation”). I also co-founded EA Munich in 2015. I have a master’s and a PhD in Computational Science from TU Munich and a bachelor’s in Engineering Physics from Tec de Monterrey.

I also have a blog called Globally Bound where I write about consciousness and extreme suffering.

🔶 10% pledger since 2015

An­nounc­ing ClusterFree: A cluster headache ad­vo­cacy and re­search ini­ti­a­tive (and how you can help)

Alfredo Parra 🔸21 Nov 2025 11:38 UTC
151 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing “Com­pu­ta­tional Func­tion­al­ism De­bate” (so­lic­it­ing paid feed­back): Test your in­tu­itions about consciousness

Chris Percy7 Nov 2025 18:39 UTC
18 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Emerg­ing ev­i­dence on treat­ing cluster headaches with DMT

Alfredo Parra 🔸18 Oct 2025 14:32 UTC
120 points
19 comments9 min readEA link

How much should we value avert­ing a Day Lived in Ex­treme Suffer­ing (DLES)?

Alfredo Parra 🔸26 Jul 2025 21:02 UTC
60 points
6 comments19 min readEA link

Please re­con­sider your use of adjectives

Alfredo Parra 🔸21 Jun 2025 11:48 UTC
178 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

“Most painful con­di­tion known to mankind”: A ret­ro­spec­tive of the first-ever in­ter­na­tional re­search sym­po­sium on cluster headache

Alfredo Parra 🔸18 May 2025 11:23 UTC
163 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

It’s time to say good­bye to “func­tion­ally equiv­a­lent ar­tifi­cial neu­rons”

Alfredo Parra 🔸26 Apr 2025 12:52 UTC
27 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Alfredo Parra ’s Quick takes

Alfredo Parra 🔸21 Mar 2025 15:20 UTC
5 points
35 commentsEA link

The Quest for a Stone-Free World: Chanca Pie­dra (Phyl­lan­thus niruri) as an Acute and Pro­phy­lac­tic Treat­ment for Kid­ney Stones and Their As­so­ci­ated Ex­treme Nega­tive Valence

algekalipso18 Feb 2025 0:08 UTC
76 points
10 comments32 min readEA link

Indi­rect re­al­ism illus­trated (and why it mat­ters so much for con­scious­ness de­bates)

Alfredo Parra 🔸16 Feb 2025 9:20 UTC
31 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Global Bur­den of Ex­treme Pain from Cluster Headaches

Alfredo Parra 🔸1 Nov 2024 20:35 UTC
211 points
22 comments27 min readEA link

Aban­don­ing func­tion­al­ism: Some in­tu­ition pumps

Alfredo Parra 🔸11 Jul 2024 9:23 UTC
81 points
6 comments15 min readEA link

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Pro­ject – An­nual Re­port 2022

Legal Priorities Project2 May 2023 13:32 UTC
76 points
2 comments30 min readEA link

High­lights from LPP’s field-build­ing efforts

Legal Priorities Project23 Mar 2023 8:18 UTC
78 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Law & Longter­mism Din­ner—EAG Bay Area 2023

Alfredo Parra 🔸31 Jan 2023 10:47 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link