Betawolf comments on Open thread, Aug. 10 - Aug. 16, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Betawolf 10 August 2015 09:41:29PM 4 points [-]

The author is associated with the Foundational Research Institute, which has a variety of interests highly connected to those of Lesswrong, yet some casual searches seem to show they've not been mentioned.

Briefly, they seem to be focused on averting suffering, with various outlooks on that including effective altruism outreach, animal suffering and ai-risk as a cause of great suffering.