Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, artificial sentience, and the problem of knowing which actions reduce suffering in the long-term future. You can read more about Tobias' work here: https://centerforreducingsuffering.org.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:52 What are suffering risks?

05:40 Artificial sentience

17:18 Is reducing suffering hopelessly difficult?

26:06 Can we know how to reduce suffering?

31:17 Why are suffering risks neglected?

37:31 How do we avoid accidentally increasing suffering?

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