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A Plan to Deal With Suffering Here's a plan to deal much more effectively with suffering in the world within the next few years, if some people embrace it and actually work within a Startup Team to move it forward. The plan has three interrelated building blocks: 1) a World Center for the Control of Excessive Suffering, 2) an Algoscience for the Systematic Study of Suffering, and 3) an AI app for Dealing With Questions About Suffering. 1) World Center for the Control of Excessive Suffering The World Center for the Control of Excessive Suffering is an enterprise whose mission is to optimally minimize, through coordinated action on a global scale, the occurrences of consciousness that are too unpleasant. The Center is up and running at aboutsuffering.org. It is planned to operate on a much larger scale, with thousands of people and billions of dollars. This expansion is viewed as feasible through the following stages: The idea (first proposed in 1975) of establishing a central place to systematically address the problem of suffering in the world is good enough to… … bring a few persons to elaborate a first scaled-down version of the Center that is interesting enough to… … attract at least one high-level promoter who can present a roadmap that is convincing enough to… … involve at least one high-level funder who can invest enough to… … pay for the workforce, facilities, and equipment that are sophisticated enough to… … operate departments of research and intervention that are powerful enough to… … realize the best possible control of excessive suffering in the world.