Ruth_Seleo

Community Builder / Advocacy @ Compassionate Future Initiative
288 karmaJoined Working (6-15 years)Munich, Germany
compassionate-future.org/

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How I can help others

I can help with 
- community on-boarding to the suffering abolitionist community (= talk to/ socialize with anyone who is interested)  and 
- orientation/reflection on suffering abolitionist careers or project opportunities. 
I am also open to general (project) feedback exchange and any other kind of collaboration, really, if it matches somehow.

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✨ Applications Still Open: Compassionate Future Summit

📅 21–25 August 2025 | 📍 Berlin, Germany
As attendance capacity remains dynamic, a few spots are currently available — perfect for last-minute applicants looking to join a transformative weekend focused on long-term strategies to reduce suffering across all sentient life.

From fast-paced lightning talks to in-depth workshops, here’s a snapshot of the content already driving this year’s Compassionate Future Summit.

  • Evelyn Hutter (Philosophy Student & Co-organiser): Suffering-Focused Ethics in Moral Philosophy & Psychology

 

  • Aditya SK (Co-organiser) & Oscar Horta (founder of Animal Ethics): Long-Term Opportunities for Animal Advocacy

 

  • Tristan Cook (Co-organiser & Managing Director at the Centre on Long-Term Risk): Having previously worked on macrostrategy and community building at CLR, Tristan will introduce CLR’s work on s-risk motivated AI safety and how CLR is approaching the robustness of longtermist suffering reduction efforts

 

  • Constance Li (Founder of Hive and AI for Animals): Wargaming the Future of Animal Advocacy — a role-play simulation exploring how different animal welfare interventions might perform in AGI-influenced futures

 

  • Stacey Akinyi (Medical Student, Kenya): Presenting her work on the WHO Youth Council Working Group for Accessibility and Equity, as well as her involvement with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. 

 

  • Corentin Biteau (Founder of ONEI, addressing the impacts of insect farming in France): Lightning ‘What should be done about Insect Farming’ and Cause Prioritisation Workshop

 

  • Magdalena Kolczynska (Volunteer at the Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering, OPIS): Providing Insights from OPIS’s Recent Survey on the intensity and duration of suffering associated with a wide range of diseases and life conditions. 

 

  • Jordan Stone (Space Generation Advisory Council, Cosmic Futures Project Lead): Space Governance and Preventing Cosmic Suffering 

 

  • Joseph Ancion (President of his university’s Animal Ethics Association; FutureKind (Electric Sheep) fellow, volunteering for the World Day for the End of Fishing and Fish Farming): Cause Prioritisation & Career Advice regarding AI and sentient beings.  

 

And apply here.

We still have around 5 spots left for the upcoming Compassionate Future Summit!
 

I’ll soon be sharing 10 example content contributions and contributors — but in the meantime, here’s what I suggest to anyone applying in order to get the most out of the preparation for your self and make your content contribution most valuable for the other attendees. 

Ideally: 

  • have a theory of change outlined for your career trajectory or your content contribution - with ranking strategies by their potential for impact and with risk/benefit ratio
  • include a long-term outlook — How might your strategy impact future sentient beings in the next 10, 50, or 200 years? 

If you’re working on ideas that could meaningfully shape a more compassionate future, we’d love to hear from you!

Warmly,
Ruth

We still have around 5 spots left for the upcoming Compassionate Future Summit!
 

I’ll soon be sharing 10 example content contributions and contributors — but in the meantime, here’s what I suggest to anyone applying in order to get the most out of the preparation for your self and make your content contribution most valuable for the other attendees. 

Ideally: 

  • have a theory of change outlined for your career trajectory or your content contribution - with ranking strategies by their potential for impact and with risk/benefit ratio
  • include a long-term outlook — How might your strategy impact future sentient beings in the next 10, 50, or 200 years? 

If you’re working on ideas that could meaningfully shape a more compassionate future, we’d love to hear from you!

Warmly,
Ruth

📣We start in 12 hours, this time using the video conferencing platform jitsi. See link in the description 😊

Hi Alex, thanks for the kind words and thoughtful suggestion!

We actually run online events every other month, and everyone’s welcome to join. I’ll be setting up the next one soon, so I recommend following the Compassionate Future Initiative group page to stay in the loop.

As for the summit, making it hybrid would unfortunately compromise the community atmosphere we’re aiming to create. For more classic conference-style formats, where a safe, close-knit setting is less crucial, we might consider hybrid options in the future.

Hope to see you at one of the events—online or in person. :)

There’s no formal application deadline, but spots are limited and filling up at a considerable pace ;)

Hi @everyone. The meetup went very well today. Thank you everyone for your contributions! Here are the meetup minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D5CopGUHOMwXJaHVUcVDuBtaKjWLZ_5np5uFg6-VhaY/edit?tab=t.0

Only 3.5 h left until the next meetup. Looking forward to seeing you there and sharing news and updates 😊

As preparation this time, I encourage people to develop a Suffering Abolitionists Project Prize proposal for e.g. XPRIZE (deadline 05 May 2024)

https://www.xprize.org/designstudio


Questions to answer:      
 

  1. What is the problem you hope to address through this prize competition?
  2. What assumptions or misconceptions prevent innovation in this area?
  3. Describe the specific challenges (political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental) currently slowing and/or preventing progress in this area?
  4. Describe what the winning team must do to win your proposed prize.
  5. Describe the competition format and provide any specific judging criteria. Eg Staged down select, a first to achieve, head to head race, best in class, with or without bonus prices...
  6. What is the duration of your prize competition?
  7. What size prize purse would motivate a team to compete?
  8. What will be the immediate and lasting impacts of running this prize competition?
  9. Propose a name for your prize concept.
  10. Provide a one sentence description that clearly communicates your prize concept.
  11. Upload an image that graphically communicates your prize concept.
  12. Do you know of a company, organization, and/or an individual who would be willing to fund your prize concept?


 

Note, the XPrize is limited to certain categories:      

BIODIVERSITY + CONSERVATION

CLIMATE + ENERGY

DEEP TECH + QUANTUM

FOOD + WATER + WASTE

HEALTH

LEARNING + SOCIETY

SPACE + EXPLORATION

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