Hi everyone,
I will be sharing insights from the IARC2023, where I gave a workshop and attended a bunch of stuff. Looking forward to hearing from everyone again :)
Ruth_Fr.
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📣 In 12 hours we have our next meetup: 15 October 2022 at 07:00 am **UTC**!
As always, in order for everyone to make the most of the event, please make a commitment to work on a topic of your choice relevant to suffering abolitionism. Our list of initiatives should serve as inspiration. But there is no need to make big commitments. Reading an article is fine too! Note: The more precise you are with what you choose to commit to, the more committed you will feel to actually do it. Even better if you share what you committed yourself to. E.g. as a comment here.
As inspiration for cause areas to work on, check out the following mind maps:
Abolition of suffering: cause areas and interventions: https://suffering-abolition.github.io/mechanisms-and-causes-of-suffering/
Finding your niche of engagement—from first steps to career forming: https://suffering-abolition.github.io/intervention-mindmap-against-suffering/
Excited to talk to you soon! 😊
Looking for Karma points.
Hi all, I would like to post a critical perspective on maximizing happiness. It includes an alternative approach, mental health issues and burnout. I would love to see a discussion about it, but not only on FB :) Anyone interested and willing to give me some karma to enable my post?
Cheers :)
Only one week is left until the next meetup: 09 July 2022 at 07:00 am UTC.
This is the first time now in EA Gather Town.
The first 10 minutes will be dedicated to help people enter, navigate and explore the Suffering Abolition hall in EA Gather Town, which I have set up and decorated with lots of care and help from Emrik.
As always, in order for everyone to make the most of the event, please make a commitment to work on a topic of your choice relevant to suffering abolitionism. Our list of initiatives should serve as inspiration. But there is no need to make big commitments. Reading an article is fine too! Note: The more precise you are with what you choose to commit to, the more committed you will feel to actually do it. Even better if you share what you committed yourself to. E.g. as a comment here.
As inspiration for cause areas to work on, check out the following mind maps:
Excited to talk to you soon!
Cheers
Ruth
Thank you very much, Telofy, for your contribution! I am actually not addressing or arguing about value systems like positive or negative utilitarianism or suffering focused ethics. I see how my arguments may seem like being related to that discussion, but sustainability and propagation of well-being I think is as important for positive utilitarians as sustainable suffering reduction for negative utilitarians, so I hope I can win both sides over for my arguments. It is rather true that I am partly referring to Michael Plant’s use of words. However, I do actually approve of his work very much so this post isn’t really addressing that, but the confusion and misunderstanding that is coming from not using differential terms (according to their connotations) and moreover the concept of positive psychology.
And since I’m working on similar issues I notice how much confusion there is among professionals, that make working together rather hard. So this post is partly to clarify my take on things in order to avoid repeatedly debate on principles, and rather have it once on a high level (which so far doesn’t seem to work, as people keep their arguments for themselves). I wish people would reveal a bit more then dislike, so I could actually address things accordingly. But maybe my writing doesn’t reach a quality standard people feel worthy to argue with.
As always, in order for everyone to make the most of the event, please make a commitment to work on a topic of your choice relevant to suffering abolitionism. Our list of initiatives should serve as inspiration. But there is no need to make big commitments. Reading an article is fine too! Note: The more precise you are with what you choose to commit to, the more committed you will feel to actually do it. Even better if you share what you committed yourself to. E.g. as a comment here.
As inspiration for cause areas to work on, check out the following mind maps:
Excited to talk to you soon!
Only two days left until the next meetup :D
I am also planning to attend EAGxBerlin (16 − 18 September), EAGxVirtual (21 − 23 October) and EAGxRotterdam (4 − 6 November). See https://www.eaglobal.org/.
We hope to organize suffering abolitionist lightning talks and meetups during these events.
Let us know whether you plan to attend and are interested to meetup, or whether you know of other conferences and events that we should attend to advocate for Suffering Abolitionism.
Hi @ everyone. Just wanting to share that I just booked for myself „LUXORY“ room with 6⁄7 beds mixed – FLEX (no breakfast as I am vegan) at the Grand Hostel Berlin, Tempelhofer Ufer 14. (I paid about 25€ / night)
I highly encourage other EAs, particularly people interested in suffering abolitionism/ suffering focused ethics to book there as well to increase networking benefits. ;)Also, a messenger group could be nice for networking. Should I start one? Would Telegram work for everyone?
In 15 min we meet in EAGT.
Get yourself something to drink and make yourself comfortable for the next Working / Community Meetup :)
Access: https://app.gather.town/app/Yhi4XYj0zFNWuUNv/EA%20coworking%20and%20lounge
Now it is 3 hours until our call starts. 😊✊
This is the second time now in EA Gather Town.Access: https://app.gather.town/app/Yhi4XYj0zFNWuUNv/EA%20coworking%20and%20lounge
The first 10 minutes will be again dedicated to help people enter, navigate and explore the Suffering Abolition hall in EA Gather Town.
Excited to talk to you soon!
Only five days left until the next meetup: 23 July 2022 at 03:00 pm UTC. :D
This is the second time now in EA Gather Town.
The first 10 minutes will be again dedicated to help people enter, navigate and explore the Suffering Abolition hall in EA Gather Town, which I have set up and decorated with lots of care and help from Emrik.
As always, in order for everyone to make the most of the event, please make a commitment to work on a topic of your choice relevant to suffering abolitionism. Our list of initiatives should serve as inspiration. But there is no need to make big commitments. Reading an article is fine too! Note: The more precise you are with what you choose to commit to, the more committed you will feel to actually do it. Even better if you share what you committed yourself to. E.g. as a comment here.
As inspiration for cause areas to work on, check out the following mind maps:
Excited to talk to you soon!
As preparation this time, I encourage people to develop a Suffering Abolitionists Project Prize proposal for e.g. XPRIZE (deadline 05 May 2024)
https://www.xprize.org/designstudio
Questions to answer:
What is the problem you hope to address through this prize competition?
What assumptions or misconceptions prevent innovation in this area?
Describe the specific challenges (political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental) currently slowing and/or preventing progress in this area?
Describe what the winning team must do to win your proposed prize.
Describe the competition format and provide any specific judging criteria. Eg Staged down select, a first to achieve, head to head race, best in class, with or without bonus prices...
What is the duration of your prize competition?
What size prize purse would motivate a team to compete?
What will be the immediate and lasting impacts of running this prize competition?
Propose a name for your prize concept.
Provide a one sentence description that clearly communicates your prize concept.
Upload an image that graphically communicates your prize concept.
Do you know of a company, organization, and/or an individual who would be willing to fund your prize concept?
Note, the XPrize is limited to certain categories:
BIODIVERSITY + CONSERVATION
CLIMATE + ENERGY
DEEP TECH + QUANTUM
FOOD + WATER + WASTE
HEALTH
LEARNING + SOCIETY
SPACE + EXPLORATION
The link for Gather town (our meet up hall) wasn’t updated. I did so now. See as well: https://app.gather.town/app/Yhi4XYj0zFNWuUNv/EA%20coworking%20and%20lounge?spawnToken=6DRLsIP5Gp1C30RP
Sorry, I was way, way off. Oh well. Please just check date converted to your time zone with that link: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Online%20Working%20%2F%20Community%20Meetup%20for%20the%20Abolition%20of%20Suffering&iso=20240406T07&p1=1440&ah=1&am=30 (It only works if your browser has access to your location.)
Hi everyone, again I want to cultivate the habit of using the commenting function (here in the EA Forum, in FB and in Discord) as a motivating accountability tool for sharing what one is working on/ planning to share at the event.
For me, I might talk a little bit about the “Wild Animals in Urban Spaces: How Cities Can Promote Wild Animal Welfare in the Built Environment” talk, and share about my increased engagement in EA Munich and the potentials. Looking forward to seeing you all in about 10,5 hours (if I counted correctly)
We start in 4 hours :)
I’m sorry I messed up the time! We start in 35 min!
I’m afraid I need to cancel today due to health reasons. Feel free to meet up without me.
Hi there, we will meet in about 8 hours online. Please check out the event description for further information. Looking forward to making some progress on projects and ideas :)
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/163512329953547/
Although I agree with the message that fuzzy-feely altruism can benefit your own well-being and motivation to do high impact altruism, I cringed a bit at the title. Please consider feeding only sterilised stray cats. Thanks ^^′
Otherwise, by feeding a fertile stray cat you contribute to creation of more starving, diseased cats. So even for the fuzzy feely altruism it is important to not just see what you want to see (the one moment of a pleased stray cat you interacted with), but assess relevant (future) consequences to not cause more suffering.
Actually, sterilising would be the more valuable doing than feeding, but that again may not be a fuzzy feely altruism anymore, as the immediate reaction of the cat certainly will not be gratefulness. And we usually need (immediate) gratefulness of other beings to create the desired improved mental well-being for ourselves and motivation.