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Preparatory notes for this part:
The global control of excessive suffering requires specialized knowledge that can only be found in a theoretical and practical discipline expressly devoted to the phenomenon of suffering itself.
The following chapters deal with:
- Documentation, bib, info, referral,
- Methodology, epistemology, KM, AI, see https://robertdaoust.org/syst-study/classif.html#table
- Terminology Common terms
- Classifications, various kinds of s
- Etiology Relevant Causes and Effects, factors
- Remedies Remediations, handling, factors
- Measurements, monitoring
- Interrelating all areas, general synthesis…………. Theoretically, interconnections between all departments and chapters of our Center are a part of the specialized discipline (synthesis…). There will exist many “SubCenters”!…
The following writings might be helpful:
- Algonomy Handbook, Toward an Institute of Algoscience, and Developing the Science About Suffering.
- See also Collaborative Memos: February 2, March 9, and July 1, 6 and 20.
- See also Preparatory Notes for the Measurement of Suffering.
- See also Implementing Knowledge Management, esp. about the role of Artificial Intelligence.
Part 3: Chapters
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- Measurement
Preparatory notes for this section:
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- Quantification for the Expansion of our Enterprise Our aim in this section is to establish a rough estimate of what the success of our enterprise requires in terms of hours of work or dollars spent. The following exploratory calculations could form part of the discipline specializing in the study of suffering, since the quantity of resources (in time and money) used to control suffering may represent pretty accurately the number of unpleasant occurrences of consciousness that are affected “in the end”. Visible resources are easier to count than occurrences of suffering, and we can count indifferently in terms of hours of work or dollars spent, since both have a mutual exchange value.A first degree of satisfactory success on a global scale would be for us to optimally minimize by 10 % the occurrences of consciousness that we consider too unpleasant. This would require x (millions) hours or y (billions) dollars, as shown in the table below. So far, a number of hours (50K ?) or dollars (1M ?) have been invested, making it possible to succeed in the first stage of realization (“The idea of establishing a central place to systematically address the problem of suffering in the world is good enough…”) because the idea of our World Center has now been proposed to a few groups of well-advised Internet users who approved it. Another number of hours (4K ?) or dollars (200K ?) will be required to succeed in the second stage of realization (“… bring a few dedicated persons to elaborate a first scaled-down version of the Center that is interesting enough…”).Table of time and monetary resources used in the 7 stages of expansion of our enterprise: (to come…)
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