Magnus Vinding

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Working to reduce extreme suffering for all sentient beings.

Author of Suffering-Focused Ethics, Reasoned Politics, Essays on Suffering-Focused Ethics, and Compassionate Purpose.

Co-founder, with Tobias Baumann, of the Center for Reducing Suffering (CRS).

Ebooks available for free here and here.

Compassionate Purpose — Book Launch Q&A with Magnus Vinding

Center for Reducing Suffering12 May 2026 11:52 UTC

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New Book — Compassionate Purpose: Personal Inspiration for a Better World

Magnus Vinding5 May 2026 13:30 UTC

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A virtue-based approach to reducing suffering given long-term cluelessness

Magnus Vinding13 Aug 2025 16:18 UTC

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Reducing suffering given long-term cluelessness

Magnus Vinding26 Jun 2025 17:53 UTC

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[Question] Is DeepSeek-R1 already better than o3 when inference costs are held constant?

Magnus Vinding24 Jan 2025 15:29 UTC

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Point-by-point reply to Yudkowsky on UFOs

Magnus Vinding19 Dec 2024 21:24 UTC

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Cosmic AI safety

Magnus Vinding6 Dec 2024 22:32 UTC

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New eBook: Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures

Magnus Vinding4 Aug 2024 7:34 UTC

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Silent cosmic rulers

Magnus Vinding15 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC

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Why UFOs matter

Magnus Vinding21 Jun 2024 10:53 UTC

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[Linkpost] Can we confidently dismiss the existence of near aliens? Probabilities and implications

Magnus Vinding25 Jul 2023 11:37 UTC

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Beware frictions from altruistic value differences

Magnus Vinding1 Dec 2022 18:58 UTC

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Two contrasting models of “intelligence” and future growth

Magnus Vinding24 Nov 2022 11:54 UTC

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Linkpost for various recent essays on suffering-focused ethics, priorities, and more

Magnus Vinding28 Sep 2022 8:58 UTC

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Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”

Magnus Vinding23 Aug 2022 9:21 UTC

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Research vs. non-research work to improve the world: In defense of more research and reflection [linkpost]

Magnus Vinding20 May 2022 16:25 UTC

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Against the “smarts fetish”

Magnus Vinding8 Apr 2022 7:54 UTC

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New Book: “Reasoned Politics” + Why I have written a book about politics

Magnus Vinding3 Mar 2022 11:31 UTC

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Magnus Vinding’s Quick takes

Magnus Vinding25 Sep 2020 17:25 UTC

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New book — “Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications”

Magnus Vinding31 May 2020 9:27 UTC

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