Suffering

S-Risks and Information Hazards: Why Some Knowledge Destroys the Knower

Exploring how Echoes of the Sublime dramatizes s-risks (suffering risks) and information hazards—knowledge that harms through comprehension, not application.

Phenomenological Ethics: Starting From What Hurts

When you stub your toe, you don’t think: “Hmm, let me consult moral philosophy to determine whether this pain is bad.”

The badness is immediate. Self-evident. Built into the experience itself.

On Moral Responsibility proposes a …

The Policy: S-Risk Scenarios - Worse Than Extinction

Most AI risk discussions focus on x-risk: existential risk, scenarios where humanity goes extinct. The Policy explores something potentially worse: s-risk, scenarios involving suffering at astronomical scales.

The “s” stands for …

Suffering, Computation, and the Enigma of Reality

Cancer gives you a lot of time to think about suffering—its nature, its purpose (if any), and whether it reveals anything fundamental about reality.

Suffering as Information

One way to think about suffering: it’s how certain patterns of …