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Towards the Aboltion of Suffering through Science

2,537 views · Published 10 August 2015 · 3:02:46 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2015 · Entertainment

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!!Skip to 10:19 to bypass some audio problems in the beginning!!

David Pearce, Brian Tomasik, Andres Gomez Emilsson & Mike Johnson joined host Adam Ford to discuss the mitigating suffering in the short, medium and long term.
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Topics will include:
- Valence research, Qualia computing (how to use consciousness for information processing, and why that has ethical implications), Space colonization, AGI safety, animal suffering, insect suffering, Nozicks Experience Machine, long term paradise engineering, complexity and valence,
- Effective Altruism/Cause prioritization and suffering reduction - what are the best projects people can work on to reduce suffering? and what to work on first? (including where to donate, what research topics to prioritize, what messages to spread)
- If we successfully “reverse-engineer” the patterns for pain and pleasure, what does ‘responsible disclosure’ look like? Potential benefits and potential for abuse both seem significant.
- If we agree that valence is a pattern in a dataset, what’s a good approach to defining the dataset, and what’s a good heuristic for finding the pattern?
- What order of magnitude is the theoretical potential of mood enhancement? E.g., 2x vs 10x vs 10^10x

David Pearce: http://hedweb.com/
Mike Johnson: http://opentheory.net/
Andres Gomex Emilsson: http://qualiacomputing.com/
Brain Tomasik: http://reducing-suffering.org/
‪#‎hedweb‬ ‪#‎EffectiveAltruism‬ ‪#‎HedonisticImperative‬ ‪#‎AbolitionistProject‬

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