Introducing Our Substack
We are launching this Substack to provide a clearer window into the work of the Center for Reducing Suffering (CRS). Our mission at CRS is to help create a future with less suffering, especially its most intense forms. We believe that suffering matters equally, no matter who experiences it or when. That conviction leads us to consider the interests of all sentient beings and to focus on preventing outcomes containing astronomical amounts of intense suffering, known as s-risks.
The purpose of this Substack is to share ongoing research, analysis, and reflections on suffering-focused ethics (SFE) and how best to reduce suffering across the broad landscape of possible futures. The uncertainty involved in long-term strategy makes humility and open-mindedness essential. We aim to model these values by exploring a wide range of hypotheses, avoiding the tendency to fixate prematurely on a single path, and foregrounding cooperation as a key tool for preventing the worst outcomes. Efforts to reduce suffering can easily go wrong if pursued incautiously; we therefore emphasize careful reasoning, broad exploration, and cooperative engagement with people from a wide variety of moral traditions and cultural backgrounds.
We hope this space encourages thoughtful engagement with ethics and the project of reducing suffering. We are grateful to have you with us.
Curious what your reasons are to post here rather than on your website. Are you switching? If yes, why? If, on the contrary, you also intend to keep posting on your website, what will be the criterion for deciding whether a post fits more here or there? This post makes it feel like you'll just have a lower bar for posting here. Is that it? (I've been considering posting on my Substack instead of on the EA Forum or LW myself, and I guess your rationale here might enlighten me.) :)