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“Why Donate to the Center for Reducing Suffering?” by Center for Reducing Suffering

21 Nov 2025

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Center for Reducing Suffering's post for Marginal Funding Week 2025. Quick Summary CRS is a non-profit organization that aims to alleviate and prevent the worst forms of suffering, in the present and in the long-term future, across all sentient beings. We believe reducing suffering is an urgent moral priority and in this post we will share how your support can help us expand our work. What We Do We conduct research with the goal of understanding how to best reduce and prevent suffering. Our outputs include books and essays that are accessible free of charge to everyone. Here are some: Suffering Focused Ethics; Reasoned Politics; Avoiding the Worst; In terms of content and focus areas, we concentrate on suffering-focused ethics and avoiding worst-case outcomes such as s-risks. S-risks are scenarios in which future suffering occurs on an astronomical scale. These risks can arise in several ways, such as: Authoritarian global rule supported by advanced surveillance technologies, potentially enabling oppression and cruelty that persists across generations with little opportunity for meaningful reform. The rise of extremist belief systems, which, if embedded in influential future institutions or powerful AI agents, could normalise large-scale cruelty or retribution. The deliberate infliction [...] ---Outline:(00:16) Quick Summary(00:38) What We Do(03:01) What Has Happened in 2025?(04:47) What We Plan to Do with Marginal Funding?(05:58) The Size of Our Funding Gap(06:39) Funding CRS --- First published: November 21st, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DJifsD9zd4ggtgKqd/why-donate-to-the-center-for-reducing-suffering-1 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

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