EA reading list: utilitarianism and consciousness

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Start here:

• Utilitarianism.net (MacAskill and Meissner, 2020)

• The golden rule (Paul Christiano)

• Report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood (Luke Muehlhauser, 2017)

Further reading:

• How to be a consequentialist about everything (Toby Ord)

• The Hedonistic Imperative (David Pearce)

• Why I don’t focus on the hedonistic imperative (Brian Tomasik)

• Utilitarianism, contractualism, and self-sacrifice (Carl Shulman)

• Valence eliminativism (Phil Trammell, 2019)

• Is brain size morally relevant? (Brian Tomasik)

• Which computations do I care about? (Brian Tomasik)