Tobias Baumann, Author at Center for Reducing Suffering

2022 End-of-Year Fundraiser

Tobias Baumann — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:08:03 +0000

2022 has been an exciting year for us. It saw the release of Magnus Vinding’s book Reasoned Politics, Tobias Baumann’s book Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe. In addition, we published several essays on suffering–focused ethics. We are now raising money to consolidate our financial situation. We believe that CRS’s open-ended research […]

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New book on s-risks

Tobias Baumann — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:48:26 +0000

I have just published my new book on s-risks, titled Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe. You can find it on Amazon, read the PDF version, or listen to a provisional audio version. The book is primarily aimed at longtermist effective altruists. I wrote it because I feel that s-risk prevention is a somewhat neglected priority area in […]

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Open position: Communications Manager

Tobias Baumann — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:11:48 +0000

We’re looking for a Communications Manager to help us communicate our mission to broader audiences. About the role In this role, you’ll work at the heart of our organisation. You’ll help improve our online and social media presence, host high-impact events, and stay in touch with our supporters and donors. Above all, you will continually […]

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Five recommendations for better political discourse

Tobias Baumann — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:53:23 +0000

Introduction Political decisions arguably represent the linchpin of human decision-making, constraining and influencing every choice we make. And our political system is currently operating far from ideally, to put it mildly. This renders it uniquely important that we do better. From a longtermist perspective, what matters most is that we advance politics over the long […]

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S-risk impact distribution is double-tailed

Tobias Baumann — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:36:25 +0000

Summary Discussions about s-risks often rest on a single-tailed picture, focused on how much suffering human civilization could risk causing. But when we consider the bigger picture, including s-risks from alien civilizations, we see that human civilization’s expected impact on s-risks is in fact double-tailed. This likely has significant implications. For instance, it might mean […]

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2020 End-of-Year Fundraiser

Tobias Baumann — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:45:04 +0000

2020 has been an exciting year for us. We officially set up the Center for Reducing Suffering (CRS) as an organisation, launched this website, and published articles on suffering–focused ethics, s-risks, and cause prioritisation. We are now raising money to consolidate our financial situation. We believe that CRS’s open-ended research programme on how to best […]

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Longtermism and animal advocacy

Tobias Baumann — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:12:32 +0000

There is a common tendency among effective altruists to think of animal advocacy as having little value for improving the long-term future. Similarly, animal advocates often assume that longtermism has little relevance to their work. Yet this seems misguided: sufficient concern for nonhuman sentient beings is a key ingredient in how well the long-term future […]

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