Categorising the future risks of suffering
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‘S-risks’
https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/s-risks/
People working on *suffering risks* or *s-risks* attempt to reduce the risk of something causing vastly more suffering than has existed on Earth so far. We think research to work out how to mitigate these risks might be particularly important. You may also be able to do important work by building this field, which is currently highly neglected — with fewer than 50 people working on this worldwide.
This article proffers a fascinating matrix by which we can categorise and stratify the risk of suffering as a community in the future. Could this be the root of a new real-life Asimovian Psychohistory?