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jonleighton

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I run OPIS, a think-and-do tank I founded that’s dedicated to the prevention of intense suffering of all sentient beings. We’ve been focused on improving access to controlled substances (morphine and psychedelics) for the effective treatment of severe pain (terminal cancer and cluster headaches, respectively) and, to a lesser extent through postings and talks, on ending factory farming. Our larger goal and where we are shifting our efforts is to make the prevention of intense suffering a top priority of governance. I’m the author of two books on ethics, The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe (2011) and my new book, The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering (January 2023). I’ve co-organised a workshop in the Swiss Alps for suffering-focused EAs from around Europe. I’m officially based in Switzerland but spend much of my time in Greece, where I am also a member of the EA Greece team. My background is in molecular biological research.

Pro­mot­ing com­pas­sion­ate longtermism

jonleighton7 Dec 2022 14:26 UTC
117 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

New book: The Tango of Ethics: In­tu­ition, Ra­tion­al­ity and the Preven­tion of Suffering

jonleighton2 Jan 2023 8:45 UTC
113 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

OPIS ini­ti­a­tive on ac­cess to psilo­cy­bin for cluster headaches

jonleighton10 Sep 2020 8:22 UTC
61 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

OPIS policy pa­per: Le­gal­is­ing ac­cess to psilo­cy­bin for the treat­ment of cluster headaches

jonleighton12 Nov 2020 11:10 UTC
43 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Reliev­ing ex­treme phys­i­cal pain in hu­mans – an op­por­tu­nity for effec­tive funding

jonleighton10 Oct 2018 12:28 UTC
38 points
16 comments15 min readEA link