(A)causal Compassion

This site serves as the central repository for essays, technical papers, research notes, and related artefacts emerging from the Acausal Compassion Research Program.

This program aims to provide a systematic development of a set of interrelated ideas at the intersection of decision theory, ethics, philosophy, and consciousness studies. At its core lies a simple but far-reaching observation: across all sentient perspectives, there exists a shared, non-indexical meta-Schelling point—a universal coordination beacon grounded in the wish to be free from suffering. From this premise follow a series of conjectures about acausal decision theory, inter-agent coordination, and the formal structures capable of capturing such commitments.

To rigorously explore and formalize these ideas, dedicated tooling has been developed. This includes custom formal frameworks and software implementations designed to clarify the underlying structure of acausal reasoning. Portions of this tooling may also be of independent interest within computer science and the foundations of computation.

The site is currently in its initial placeholder phase and will be populated with full content as it becomes available. Updates will be announced via Substack. In the meantime, e-mail inquiries are also welcome.

The Acausal Compassion Research Program is being developed by Aatu Koskensilta as one of the leading deliverables of CEASE | Center for the Abolition of Suffering.