To reduce suffering in the world, you need to first prioritize its causes
I'm trying to come up with a measure for the intensity of suffering for different conditions (starting with depression)
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I'm trying to come up with a measure for the intensity of suffering for different conditions (starting with depression)
Want to help me with the project? Take this 2 min survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
🙏
I'm doing this is because when I wrote my moral code, reducing suffering in the world came out as a clear direction:
Given limited time and money, I need to compare suffering that different conditions cause.
Hence the need for a standardized measure.
https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1384018527439364101
Given limited time and money, I need to compare suffering that different conditions cause.
Hence the need for a standardized measure.
The difficulty is in standardizing this across wildly different suffering types and beings who suffer.
There are many happiness surveys, but not enough measures of suffering.
There are many happiness surveys, but not enough measures of suffering.
Just realized the measure that I'm using in my survey is called Time Trade-Off: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Trad…
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