Suffering

• On the Seriousness of Suffering
• Animal Suffering on YouTube

Donating and Charity

• Why I Donate to Vegan Outreach (and The Humane League)
• Interview with Brian Tomasik for 80,000 Hours
• Donating toward Efficient Online Veg Ads
• How to Give Encouragement to Several New Vegetarians in Just a Few Minutes
• The Haste Consideration, Revisited
• Quantify with Care

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?
• Do Insects Feel Pain?
• Humane Insecticides: A Cost-Effectiveness Calculation
• More on Humane Insecticides from Jeff Lockwood
• Promoting Awareness of Animal Emotions?
• A two-page pamphlet (pdf) on suffering in nature

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?
• One Trillion Fish
• Vegetarianism and Wild Animals

Making Money to Reduce Suffering

• Why Activists Should Consider Making Lots of Money
• Tips on Personal Finance
• Donation Tax Deductions
• Advice for Donors with Capital Gains
• The Cost of Kids

Subjective Experience

• Questions about Consciousness
• What Gives Valence to Qualia?
• Sentience and Brain Size

AI and the Future

• A Few Dystopic Future Scenarios
• Humane Reinforcement-Learning Research
• Creating Infinite Suffering: Lab Universes
• Why We Can't Rely on CEV
• What Should Negative-Leaning Utilitarians Make of X-Riskers?
• How to Not Support Extinction-Risk Reduction
• Against Wishful Thinking
• Values Spreading is Often More Important than Extinction Risk

Additional Topics

• On Triage
• Instrumental Judgment and Expectational Consequentialism
• Why Maximize Expected Value?
• Salience and Motivation
• Turn Discussions into Blog Posts
• Why I Prefer Public Conversations

Further Material

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

Writings by Others

• Effective Animal Activism (organization) and Reducing wild-animal suffering (Facebook group)
• Life in the Wild, a brochure written by a talented reader of this website.
  • alternate versions: colored background and foldable pamphlet
• How Fungicides and Eutrophication Affect Suffering in the Wild