Brian Tomasik on cause robustness for reducing suffering
Channel: Center on Long-Term Risk
Date: 2015-01-12

How can we tame the immense uncertainty that besets efforts to reduce suffering in the world? This talk discusses cooperation, differential progress, future scenarios, and wild-animal suffering. For more on these ideas, see

"Charity Cost-Effectiveness in an Uncertain World": http://foundational-research.org/publications/charity-cost-effectiveness-in-an-uncertain-world/
"Differential Intellectual Progress as a Positive-Sum Project": http://foundational-research.org/publications/differential-intellectual-progress-as-a-positive-sum-project/

The talk was recorded in Basel, Switzerland on 2 March 2014.