Remedies to eliminate specific types of suffering.

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Outline for Database of Innovations Intended to Reduce Suffering

I want to make a website which utilizes crowdsourcing to most efficiently utilize humanity\'s scarce resources to minimize suffering. This would be accomplished through a process of cost-benefit analysis. The ultimate result would be a figure illustrating the amount of pain that could be eliminated per dollar spent on a particular innovation. This figure could be used comparatively to The steps required to do so are as follows:

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Identify each significant cause of suffering.
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Quantify the cumulative amount each form of suffering in society using the
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Intensity of a Given Type of Suffering in the Average Sufferer
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Potential Ways to Quantify and Determine This:
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Monetary Value
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Online polling to determine how much money the average suffer would pay to alleviate it for a defined period of time
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Pain Scale
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Online polling to determine how the average suffer would rate their suffering on a numerical scale
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Number of Victims of this Type of Suffering
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Ways to Determine This:
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Tally Number of Web Searches
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Use Google Trends to See how often web searches are performed to find an way to alleviate this suffering
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Average Crowd-sourced Guesses
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Use Online polling of accumulate the guesses of Random Individuals to determine how the average suffer would rate their suffering on a numerical scale
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Existing Online Data
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Cull data from existing
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Time Duration of the suffering in the average affected individual
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Ways to Determine This:
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direct online polling
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Cumulative Suffering in Society
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Ways to Determine This:
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The Amount of Money Spent on Alleviating this Suffering
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Multiply the Magnitude in Average Sufferer by the Number of Sufferers by the Cumulative Lifelong Duration of Suffering in Average Sufferer
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Rank each type of suffering in order by cumulative total magnitude
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Determine all potential ways to alleviate each type of suffering
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Determine cost of each method and probability of its success
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Divide the amount of suffering by (the cost of each method x the probability of success)
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