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Now I think ensuring good future of human civilisation is perhaps the best way to reduce suffering, especially in far future, rather than advocating antinatalistic or promortalistic empty universe as a practical alternative. This will be especially so if there

Introduction Is it a harm or benefit to come into existence? Is it a harm or benefit to cease to exist? Is it a harm or benefit to cease to exist earlier rather than later? I shall suggest that there is

There are basically five forms of (purported) altruisms: 1) Improving welfare of people who are already here, without substantial change of the lifespan of people; (meliorism) 2) Extending lifespan of people; (anti-mortalism) 3) Shortening lifespan of people; (pro-mortalism) 4) Ensuring

There should not be any universal basic income, at least past puberty. Instead, on and after age of the average onset of puberty (10-13), universal basic income should be replaced with sterilisation/non-procreation basic income (SBI/NPBI henceforth). Man should be given

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 In my view, children should have absolute right to refuse their parental custody without any evidence of abuse. There should be a government owned serviced studio apartment for children (0-18) and adolescents (18-21) in state custody. They should be given

What do you think about distribution of nootropics (caffeine, modafinil, etc.) for poverty alleviation as a cause area? (associated cause areas include nootropics advocacy, nootropics deregulation movement, provision of nootropics for high impact people)   Steven Johnson claimed “And the

Anti-speciest answer: FRI, WAS-research, EAF, MIRI, CEA, Sentience Institute, Animal Ethics, ACE, etc. If you would be interested human-focused charities, I think cause-specific human rights charities are generally better than mega human rights charities. I am not sure cause-specific human

Epigraph “There is no need to create need and then satisfy it.” -Gary Mosher (Inmendham, https://youtu.be/jXjUB5A0n58?t=2m59s) Fig 1. Axiology of presences and absences of needs While the verb ‘meet’ is not a common collocation of the noun ‘interest’, nonetheless the usage

Why it is always better to cease to exist (pro-mortalism) Epigraph “Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.” – Heinrich Heine “Death solves all problems – no