Introduction

• On the Seriousness of Suffering
• Ways to Reduce Suffering

Philanthropy

• Why I Donate to Vegan Outreach

Wild-Animal Suffering

• The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering (Spanish translation: .pdf or .doc)
• Should We Intervene in Nature? (French translation: .pdf or .docx)
• How Many Wild Animals Are There?
• Can Insects Feel Pain?
• Humane Insecticides: A Cost-Effectiveness Calculation
• Promoting Awareness of Animal Emotions?
• A two-page pamphlet (pdf) on suffering in nature (source files: .pub, .txt, .png, .png, .png)
• Life in the Wild, a Why Vegan?-style brochure written by a talented reader of this website (pdf is slow to load). Feel free to distribute!

Factory Farming

• Does Vegetarianism Make a Difference?
• How Much Is a Dollar Worth? The Case of Vegan Outreach (pdf) (.tex)
• How Much Direct Suffering is Caused by Various Animal Foods?
• Vegetarianism and Wild Animals

Making Money to Reduce Suffering

• Why Activists Should Consider Making Lots of Money
• The Case for Risky Investments
• Why Maximize Expected Value?
• A Free Lunch for Donors: Covariance in Wealth and Cost-Effectiveness
• Donation Tax Deductions

Subjective Experience

• How the Hard Problem Matters
• What Gives Valence to Qualia?
• Sentience and Brain Size

Additional Topics

• Creating Infinite Suffering: Lab Universes
• Thoughts on Friendly AI
• On Triage

Further Material

• Recommended Reading
• Additional Essays
• Reducing Suffering Blog and Reducing Suffering Wiki
• My Felicifia posts