“12+ Reasons to Donate to ClusterFree” by algekalipso

By Andrés Gómez Emilsson, ClusterFree Co-Founder & Member of Advisory Board TL;DR: To motivate action and feel genuine internal alignment around a decision, sometimes we need to see it from many different angles. Even when a single reason should be enough, we need to motivate our entire internal coalition of subagents! Hence, all of these reasons to support ClusterFree in its mission: Summary of the 12+ Reasons to Support This Cause Watch real people rapidly improve - Video testimonials of torture stopping in minutes Logarithmic scale of impact - Helping someone with this condition is potentially one of the highest-leverage interventions anyone can do as a gift to someone's life Insurance against illegible suffering - Building a world that takes invisible pain seriously, including your own in the future! (crossing fingers you never experience such things!) Proof-of-concept for valence-first cost-effectiveness - This illustrates the corner cases where QALYs/DALYs fail catastrophically Intellectual coalition - Scott Alexander, Peter Singer, Anders Sandberg, Robin Carhart-Harris, etc. have seen the evidence and are convinced this is real Schelling point for suffering reduction - Network effects for future high-impact work, attracting genuine talent to focus on deep suffering reduction is its own value proposition It's a strike [...] ---Outline:(02:43) Why cluster headache mitigation should become your #1 effective giving priority this Season: impactful, novel, very alive, and with plausible fast results!(02:55) Introduction: Why Multiple Reasons Actually Matter(07:16) 1. You Can Actually See People Rapidly Improving(08:27) 2. On the Logarithmic Scale of Helping Another Human, This Is Unfathomably High(12:24) 3. Its Insurance Against Your Own Extreme Suffering Being Dismissed(13:54) 4. Its a Proof-of-Concept for Valence-First Cost-Effectiveness(15:43) 5. Youll Be in the Company of Intellectual Giants(17:36) 6. Its Creating a Schelling Point for Serious Suffering-Reduction Work(18:46) 7. Its a Strike Against Paternalistic Control Over Suffering Relief(20:12) 8. This Is Actually Tractable(22:13) 9. Every Month of Delay Means Unnecessary Pits of Suffering(23:50) 10. ClusterFree Is Accelerating an Already Developing Movement(26:39) 11. If You Take Karma Seriously, Look at What the Texts Say About Headache Relief(28:42) 12. You Get the Bodhisattva-Tier Vision(30:05) So I Can Stop Talking About Cluster Headaches in Qualia Computing(30:56) What Were Specifically Asking For(32:56) Cant Donate But Want to Help?(34:09) Conclusion --- First published: December 13th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fKYcaN3erbx2M5EuS/12-reasons-to-donate-to-clusterfree --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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