David Boree
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These are all the same people using different words to describe the aspects of what they believe. His organization is the Center on Long-Term Risk, which is a think tank he establishes that's at the ground floor of these effective altruism discussions. The goal for the Center of Long-Term Risk is to find ways to reduce suffering on a long timeline.
These are all the same people using different words to describe the aspects of what they believe. His organization is the Center on Long-Term Risk, which is a think tank he establishes that's at the ground floor of these effective altruism discussions. The goal for the Center of Long-Term Risk is to find ways to reduce suffering on a long timeline.
Tomasek is obsessed with the concept of suffering and specifically obsessed with suffering as a mathematical concept. So when I say to you, I want to end suffering, you probably think like, oh, you want to go help people who don't have access to clean water or who have worms and stuff that they're dealing with, have access to medicine. That's what normal people think of, right?
Tomasek is obsessed with the concept of suffering and specifically obsessed with suffering as a mathematical concept. So when I say to you, I want to end suffering, you probably think like, oh, you want to go help people who don't have access to clean water or who have worms and stuff that they're dealing with, have access to medicine. That's what normal people think of, right?
Tomasek is obsessed with the concept of suffering and specifically obsessed with suffering as a mathematical concept. So when I say to you, I want to end suffering, you probably think like, oh, you want to go help people who don't have access to clean water or who have worms and stuff that they're dealing with, have access to medicine. That's what normal people think of, right?
You know, maybe try to improve access to medical care, that sort of stuff. Thomas thinks of suffering as like a mass, like an aggregate mass that he wants to reduce in the long term through actions. Right. It's a numbers game to him, in other words. And his idea of ultimate good is to reduce and end the suffering of sentient life. Right.
You know, maybe try to improve access to medical care, that sort of stuff. Thomas thinks of suffering as like a mass, like an aggregate mass that he wants to reduce in the long term through actions. Right. It's a numbers game to him, in other words. And his idea of ultimate good is to reduce and end the suffering of sentient life. Right.
You know, maybe try to improve access to medical care, that sort of stuff. Thomas thinks of suffering as like a mass, like an aggregate mass that he wants to reduce in the long term through actions. Right. It's a numbers game to him, in other words. And his idea of ultimate good is to reduce and end the suffering of sentient life. Right.
Critical to his belief system, and the one that Ziz starts to develop, is the growing understanding that sentience is much more common than many people had previously assumed. Part of this comes from long-standing debates with their origins in Christian doctrine as to whether or not animals have souls or are basically machines with meat, right, that don't feel anything, right?
Critical to his belief system, and the one that Ziz starts to develop, is the growing understanding that sentience is much more common than many people had previously assumed. Part of this comes from long-standing debates with their origins in Christian doctrine as to whether or not animals have souls or are basically machines with meat, right, that don't feel anything, right?
Critical to his belief system, and the one that Ziz starts to develop, is the growing understanding that sentience is much more common than many people had previously assumed. Part of this comes from long-standing debates with their origins in Christian doctrine as to whether or not animals have souls or are basically machines with meat, right, that don't feel anything, right?
There's still a lot... of Christian evangelicals who feel that way today about like, at least the animals we eat, you know, like, well, they don't really think it's fine. God gave them to us. We can do whatever we want to them. And to be fair, um, this is an extremely common way for that.
There's still a lot... of Christian evangelicals who feel that way today about like, at least the animals we eat, you know, like, well, they don't really think it's fine. God gave them to us. We can do whatever we want to them. And to be fair, um, this is an extremely common way for that.
There's still a lot... of Christian evangelicals who feel that way today about like, at least the animals we eat, you know, like, well, they don't really think it's fine. God gave them to us. We can do whatever we want to them. And to be fair, um, this is an extremely common way for that.
People in Japan feel about like fish, even whales and dolphins, like the much more intelligent, they're not fish, but like the much more intelligent ocean going creatures is like they're fish. They don't think you do whatever to them, you know? Um, This is a reason for a lot of the really fucked up stuff with whaling fleets in that part of the world. This is a thing all over the planet.
People in Japan feel about like fish, even whales and dolphins, like the much more intelligent, they're not fish, but like the much more intelligent ocean going creatures is like they're fish. They don't think you do whatever to them, you know? Um, This is a reason for a lot of the really fucked up stuff with whaling fleets in that part of the world. This is a thing all over the planet.
People in Japan feel about like fish, even whales and dolphins, like the much more intelligent, they're not fish, but like the much more intelligent ocean going creatures is like they're fish. They don't think you do whatever to them, you know? Um, This is a reason for a lot of the really fucked up stuff with whaling fleets in that part of the world. This is a thing all over the planet.
People are very good at deciding certain things we want to eat are machines that don't feel anything. It's just much more comfortable that way. Now, this is obviously like you go into like the pagans would have been like, what do you mean animals don't think or have souls? Animals think, you know, like they're like you're telling me like my horse that I love doesn't think, you know.
People are very good at deciding certain things we want to eat are machines that don't feel anything. It's just much more comfortable that way. Now, this is obviously like you go into like the pagans would have been like, what do you mean animals don't think or have souls? Animals think, you know, like they're like you're telling me like my horse that I love doesn't think, you know.
People are very good at deciding certain things we want to eat are machines that don't feel anything. It's just much more comfortable that way. Now, this is obviously like you go into like the pagans would have been like, what do you mean animals don't think or have souls? Animals think, you know, like they're like you're telling me like my horse that I love doesn't think, you know.